Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-07-01
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Guy Rome and COMPANION
Arrested in Cellar of Home
ofGustave,W. Forsberg.
HOUSEKEEPING CHARGED
Police Lie in Wait After Owner
Reports Theft Of: Costly
Liquor.
HOUSEKEEPING CHARGED

setting a trap for burglars who On
TWO successive nights this week had
reooed the wine cellar OF the palatial
nome OF Gustave w. Fo1sberx. prom.
I inent ciuhman and oommodore of the
'S1spffai Yacht Club, at 1907 18th street
Police and revenue odscers carly today
ma m the basement Of the rorsbere
Eo'oence and captured two intruders
onp or whom is policeman de4aiied &c
ths sixth precinct. and the osher,a resi-.
dem- OF Southwest Washinston who. no
lice SAY, has been in tho tolls Of the lav
on previous occasions.
The arrested policeman, Guy Rome
was Immediately suspended from the
force, relieved Of his equipment and in.
carceraied in q call at No. 10 precinct
hone refused to make statement "a
Headq1afters detectives, and VA
c.n asea w'tn nonse6reaking. as was his
campemon, Harry Grossman of S1l x
street southwest He made a brief statH.
maui. It Is understood, but fts n.1rr =
was not made public. >~'@
Coup Well Piannei.
The arrests of the two mon at ,
O'Clock this morning resulted from a
Weii-pA9nn>d trap arranged with the
been bee on vaSant' o ND Eo, The house has
children hetng out of the city. and
Mr.. Forsberg living aboard his Yacht.
the Oldot, I'm the Potomac. VISITING
his home Sun day morning, Mr.. Fors.
berg found the front door partly
open. several rooms of the house
ransacked. and Al large quantity of his
pre- Volstead Hqllor gone. His stock
of rare old wines, whiskys and
brandies. some on which he says he
has had as Iona as twenty-three
years. is considered among the most
He nottfisd police OF the Tenth pre-
cinct. and after search OF the
neighborhood, they found two of Mr.
Forsbergs suitcases, filled with wills
ky, hidden in a cEump of bushes
in the rear of the 14th street. car barn
Forsberg returned again to his resi-
dence and found that another en-
trance had been made and Thousands
of dollars worth of expensive liquors
bundled up in the cellar, as though
ready for removal.
Poiice Watch Place.
Last night Detective c. J. p.
Weber and Policeman w. s. Brown,
both of the tenth precinct, and Pro-
hibition Enforcement Officer E. F.
Lewis took up posts at thu ForSberg
home and waited for developments.
Lewis stationed himself in the garage
at the rear. and Weber and Brown
where they could comma" clear
view of the whole room.
About O'Clock this morning. the
three men state, an autnanobile truck
containing two men pulled up in the
one was heard to remark Lets see
IL the block is clear" They then
skirted the block and returned. The
men dismounted and entered the
basement by the rear door. which
intruders. and, the onhcers say,
CROPPED their way directly to the wine
CELLAR concrete vault built into the
main basement. On the way. one Of
them was heard to say as he felt one
Of the bundles Of liquor on the fioor.
left from the night before: IT'S
still here. all right"
They then walked into the wine
vault, which had been left open after
the second robbery, and. the police
claim. were about to remove bottles
from the shelf when Brown and Web
er, with drawn pistols. rushed them
and placed them under arrest.
Force Used ON Or.
Rome is said to have taken things
complacently, but Grossman did not
comply at once with the command of
Brown that he throw up his hands
and the ofncer was compelled to use
force, 1t was said.
Mr.. Forsberg could not make a defi-
mite estimate OF the amount OF liquor
which was taken from his cellar, but
placed the value roughly at $1,000.
Among the missing bottles were
such rare brands of whisky as Old
Jordan, Hunter, Haig & Haig, Trimble,
Gallagher & Burton, Three Star Hen
messy brandy aud various German
and French chanpagncs, he stated.
Nothing but liqzlor is missing from
his residence, he believes, although q
thorough search had not been COM
pleted early this afternoon.
The investigation Of the robberies
today was taken part in by Head
quarters Detective Pat O'Brien and
Jim" Springman. A number of
finger prints on bottles. window stills
and in other places will be photo
Hraphed. Mr. Forsberg believes that
entrance to the house first wax
gained by use of a duplicate key. Ev-
licences of jimmyingt were apparent
at one of the porch windows, and q
screen had been removed from q cell
lar window toward the back OF the
house.
Julius Eanet, attorney associated
with James B. Archer, arranged this
afternoon to have Grossman released
on bail.