The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-04
POLICE ARE
SEEKING
Them

An effort to free DR.. Dee Ham
mer from the District Jail failed
today when Assistant District At
tOrney Ralph Given refused to ac-
| cept $4,000 real estate bonds Of
fered by the doctors father on
the grounds that the bonds were
on property already encountered.
DR.. Dee Hammer. 12O-pound
splnologist, who is in Jail on a
charge Of hiring q gunman to drive
a screw-driver up the nostril and
into the brain of Joseph ApoIonio,
has two erstwhile wives and three
living children, it was learned to-
day.
IL was further established that
DIR. Hammer, for reasons as yet un.
disclosed, drew compensation from
the Veterans Bureau for eight years
as a single man, although he was
entitled to a larger sum for 3 wife
and three children.
News of the marital affairs OF DIR.
| Hammer finally leaked into the bu.
reau, however, and he was gratu-
/ itously awarded a larger sum, out
4 Of regard for his status as a hus-
band and q father of three,
/ 1t has not yet been learned where
the three children are, and, accord
ing to a recent file OF the Veterans
Bureau, neat sum of. money is
being held for the children as soon az
their whereabouts are determined.
Meanwhile. hte father of these
children is in the District Jail, held
there by the double exigency of
smallpox outbreak among prisoners.
and by the Governments demand
for $4,000 bond before he can be
| released.
! Next Thursday he win Be hailed
before the Police Court with Mrs.
Anna Apolonio, his 4J-year-old al
! legged co-conspirator in a death plot
against the tin and metal nanufac-
turer of Northeast Washington.
Because Mrs. ApolonIo's husband
says he does not believe the story
OF the plot, the wife has been re-
leased In $1,000 bond.
The case. in which Detective Rob-
ert r. Langdon IL alleged to have
been hired (for 81 100 in notes. to
murder Apolonio, has not yet been
completed.
Detective LAngdon IL working on
q clue that another man il in
volved in the alleged plot. and the
name OF this man is known to
I.apgdon. Because of this mystery
mans" prominence, however, great
caution is being exercised in build
ing up the case against him.
Divorced First Wife
Evidence of DIR. Hammers two
marriages and the existence of the
| three children discloses that he was
divorced from his first wife June 80,
1919.
He married the second time five
months later. or on November 90,
1919. The record does not disclose
when his first marriage took place,
although 1t is indicated that the first
marriage must have been many
years ago, as DR.. Hammer has one
child, the bureau record shows, who
is now % years old.
Investigators have not learned
where either his first or second wife
are, or where the children are.
The Veterans Bureau on last
March 2-singularly the day DR..
Hammer hired a private detective to
trail Joseph Apolonio-wrote the
doctor as follows:
Upon receipt of the necessary
evidence in the form Of q certified
copy of the public record of your
first marriage, certified copy of
your second marriage. and certified
copies Of the public record of the
birth of your children. together with
| affidavits from two disinterested
parties relative to where and in
whose custody your children are at
| the present time and upon whom
they have been depending for sup
port. the compensation which has
been withheld from your first wife
and children will be paid to the per-
son In whose care and custody the
children have been"