Evening star., 1928-11-01
'REVELERS' HOLD UP
FILLING STATION
Bandits Here Operate Under
GuiSe of Halloween Mer-
rymakers.

Under the guise of Halloween merry
makers, bandits last night and early
| this morning held up and robbed two
! men. one the manager of a filling sta
! ton at New Jersey and Rhode Island
! avenues, and the other pedestrian, who
was stopped at our-and-a-half and /
/ streets southwest. The only reports cf
| property damage resulting from the
customary pranks was the theft of an
iron gate and the shooting of street
lamp globe. Sixty persons were locked
up on intoXication charges.
The first hold-up occurred shortly
before o'clock, the victim being Alfred
r. Tolson, 1921 Georgia avenue, man
ager of the filling station. He lost $50
to three bandits.
TolSon told second precinct police
that three men walked up to the sta
ton and asked for some gasoline in a
can. Because of their appearance he
thinks that they were colored men, two
OF whom had increased the darkness
of their skins with burnt cork. They
wore clothing of such a shabby and
ludicrouS nature as to make him believe
that they had previously mixed with
! the Halloween revelerS, posing as par
! ticipantS. One of the men waited out
side, another held him passive at the
his pockets, he said.
Pedestrian Held Up.
| Herbert j. Taylor, 915 Sixth street
| southwest, was the second victim. He
reported to fourth precinct police that
| he was held up by two men wearing
! yellow costumes and masks. The men
each pointed pistols at him and took
! $44. The robbery occurred shortly before
! 2 O'Clock this morning.
When a candle-lighted jack-o'- lantern
| set fire to curtain in the firSt-grade
room of the Eaton School during a
Halloween celebration yesterday after
| noon, the presence of mind of Mrs.
| Mildred Lehnert, teacher, averted a
! panic.
Mrs. Lehnert led the children from
the room and, returning, pulled the
| flaming curtain from the window and
| smothered the flames.
In the downtown section and on
| upper Fourteenth street the men who
sweep for a living were out early re-
| moving the traces of the one-night
reign of old King Mummer. Large
| piles of paper confetti, with here and
there the broken trapping of some Gel
ebrant, were removed from F street,
Pennsylvania avenue and Ninth street
In the downtown section.
Thousands Throng Streets.
A huge and colorful crowd thronged
the downtown streets last night and
the gayety lasted until we'll after mid
night Thousands attended dances at
hotels and dance cafes, other thou
sands found their revelry in private
parties and still more thousands made
merry at such parties as that given
by the City Club, the KallipoloS Grotto
Band and Drill Corps party at the
Washington Hotel, the Clan MacLen-
nan masquerade at Pythian Temple and
the parties of st. Cecilia Guild, St.
Monica's Chapel and U. S. S. Jacob
Jones Post, No. 2, American Legion, at
the st. Thomas Circle Club.
The first precinct led with the num-
ber of arrests for intoxication, IS being
locked up there and sent to court
this morning. Ten persons were arrest
ed for the same offense In the sec
ond precinct and nine in the fifth pre-
cinct. The number in the others was
below normal. A few of those arrested
for intoXication were also charged with
disorderly conduct as well. The eighth
precinct reported five disorderly arrests
and none for drunkenness.
All OF Une nVe nre alarms received
during the night were found to be
false. Telephone calls, however, de-
scribed by firemen as locals" took ap-
paratus to the homes of j. L. Cannon,
| $50 North Carolina avenue southeast.
and James M Ellis, Grant circle
At the home of the former firemen
found that paper jack O. lantern had
been ignited and that the blaze had
| spread to rug. 1t was quickly ex-
| tinguished Slight damage resulted.
No. "a engine company and No. truck
company were called at 1890 pm. to
the Grant Circle address. There they
found a fire that had started on the
second floor and burned up the stairway
| to the attic. Damage was tentatively
estimated at $500. There were no in
jurieS and the cause is as yet unknown.
One Street Fight Reported.
There was but one street fight. That
occurred shortly after IL o'clock, when
| Bernard Fitzgerald, % years old, of
the 1400 block Morse street northeast,
/ engaged in an alteration at Fourth
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