The Washington times., 1924-03-28
NOTHER,91,
SON. So,
BEATEN
Masked Men Break In Door
and Use Revolver Butts.
Escape With $4,000.

Il
who broke into their home at
Greater Capital Heights, Nd,
early this morning, William Sim
mons, sixty years old, and his
aged mother, ninety-one years
old, were robbed Of between $500
and $4,000 by two masked men.
Broke In Door.
Simmons and his mother, had 80.
cided to leave the home Of the
deceased brother and SON, today.
They were spending their last night
in his home.
In the early hours Of this morn.
ing, police say some where around
$50 O'Clock, two masked men broke
open the front door and rushed into
the bedroom where Simmons and
his mother were sleeping.
Boldly firing two pistol shots
across the beds, the marauders,
brutaily began the assault upon
Simmons and his mother which all
but ended in their deaths. Beaten
with either black Jacks, or the butts
OF rev0lv0rs. Simmons and his
mother were left in state Of coma.
Blow after blow descended upon
their heads, the robbers seemingly
Intent upon leaving no living per-
son to tell on them.
All But $50 Taken.
All but $50 Of the money stolen
was left by John Simmons when
he died. Always a recluse, he
boarded his money against a rainy
day. When he died, his mother and
brother took possession Of the
money and the robbers were evil
IDENTIFY aware of this fact.
Sheriff w. H. Fucitt. Of Prince
georges county, Maryland. today ex.
pressed the belief that the ma
RAIDERS would be !captnfed shortly.
BY process OF elimination the
police, and Washington detectives,
VINO are cooperating, expect to find
out who committed the brutal az.
sault.
| Simmons, blood-covered and weak
rom the nervous shock, told the
detectives that he was first avaI1.
ened when the door Of the horaa
was smashed in. Then, he said. the
robbers dashed into the bedroom
and fired two pistol shots across
/ the beds.
1.-THE men then demanded in
abrupt voices for me to give them
the money" Simmons said. when
told them that I had no money
one Of the man dubbed my mother
on the back Of the head and the
other attacked me.
II managed to get the upper
hand Of the man that Jumped on
me, but he called his partner to
knock me out. Another cut over
my head from the second of the
men, at the back of my head,
knocked me unconscious for about
fifteen minutes.
when came to I found that the
men had taken the money which
my dead brother left out of my
pocket. With that money they also
took about $50 Of my money and my
watch and chain. Blood was stream.
ing from the head Of my mother
and she was only half.conscious.
Evidently Well Planned.
Simmons told the officers that he
could not identify the men.
One Of them he said, had a
slight foreign accent and the other
a slight lisp. Both Of the men
were white Of about medium build
and. as far as he could determine.
about IS years old.
Simmons could give no sugges.
ton which would help the officers
in locating the robbers.
| ut was very well known that INV
brother who had been sometime
Of @ hermit had left Considerable
money when he died." he said. eve
buried him last Monday, and was
planning to go down and pay the
undertaken today and put what
ever. of the money that was left in
the bank"
The Simmons home at which the
assault and robbery was carried ont.
iS little three-room cottage sittins,
well back from the road about fiftv
feet over the District line.
Simmons had planned to close the
mouse as soon as he could
straighten out his brothers effects
and then return to his own home
with his mother on Crystal Spring
avenue In Capitol Heights.
All Of the persons living near
the Simmons home were questioned
by Sheriff Fugitt and the officers
today. None Of them. however, had
heard the PISTOL shot or any other
disturbance In the cottage.
Heard nm Auto Stop
! John Mask, who lives about 100
yards from the home, said that
while sitting up with his radio he
heard an automobile stop near the
simmons place about haif.past two.
he paid no attention to It at the
'ttms. he said.