The Washington times., 1924-07-10
DUNLAP BOASTS
Of CRIMINAL:
RECORD
Petting Party Bandit Tells
Attorney Crime Is His
Game
BY International News Service.

DETROIT, Mich, July 10.-"Crime
is my game: I'd steal your badge"
Harry ]. Dunlap, "petting party
bandit" told Detective Inspector
John P. Smith today, the inspector
said, while a fugitive warrant wss
being drawn up on which to hold
him for the police Of Los Angeles,
where the grand jury has indicted
him for murder, criminal assault,
and several burglaries.
Dunlap, according to Asa Keyas,
Los Angeles district attorney, is one
OF the most desperate criminals IN
| America. He Is wanted for three
murders in the foothills around Los
Angeles and for a dozen robbery
cases, perpetrated usually against
spooners in parked automobiles on
quiet roads near Los Angeles.
Admits Identity.
He was to be arraigned today In
recorders court, and probably viii
be held without bail until the ar.
rival Of detectives now en- route
from California. Dunlap, alias Will
liam Wilson, admits his identity, but
denies preparation of the numerous
| charges lodged against him.
They are trying to hang all the
crimes in California on me-" he pro.
tested.
Dunlap was arrested Saturday
| night by Sergeant John Burns, of
the Scotch avenue station, in
store at 1854 Lafayette boulevard.
where Dunlap aroused suspicion by
making three consecutive visits. He
carried a revolver and a dagger, DO
lice said.
Among the charges he face, is the
killing Of William jacobson. of Pasa.
dena. Foothi:l boulevard. January 8,
1924; William Brown, at Sacramento.
September Is, 1928, and Doctor J. L.
Arbogast, at Sacramento, Septemb
4, 1928. He is said to have attacked
many defenseless women.
On District Attorney Keyes' re-
quest, local police have refrained
from questioning him too closely
Inspector Smith, however, engaged
Dunlap in q two-hour conversation
last night in an effort to establish
his position in the local underworld
Laughs at Attorney.
He laughed derisively when SnitL
asked him about his local crimes.
II deny nothing and admit moth
ing" he said. "Of course, pulled
bunch Of robberies. but that is my
game"
Didn't you hang out around that
saloon on Junction avenue where The
proprietor was robbed of $1,000?'
! Smith asked.
Eyes, I guess I did," Dunlap
laughed. THAT was in 1917. was
playing slush then"
The term playing slush" means
in the underworld that he was pick.
ing the pockets of DRINKS and prowi-
ing about houses.
He admitted knowing the son Of
the robbed saloonkeeper in Leaven.
worth, where both were serving
terms, Dunlap for impersonating q
Federal officer.
THE kid told me all about his old
man." Dunlap said with a sly gri-
mace. II got out before he did. We
had planned holding up bank here
after he got out but got to slush-
ing too much and had to beat it."
Dunlap claims the doubtful dis
tinction Of being the original pet
ting party bandit"
at was a soft graft" he said. ''I
started that game, and now you hear
| OF spooners being held up all over
the country"
He denied all murders in general
and was particularly insistent that
he had never shot patrolman or
an innocent person.
Denies Some Crimes.
He laughed when questioned rela,
tive to the frequent statutory
crimes near Los Angeles Of which
i he Is suspected.
II never did anything like that"
he protested. "Other fellows did,
though. They would wait for tele-
phone operators and other girls who
had to go home late at night"
Dunlap appears rather proud Of
being regarded as a dangerous man.
| You know" he drawled, every
once in a while some crook comes
along and teaches them a new
wrinkle. I may yet take a few
souvenirs from the Detroit police
department with me if go to
California"