Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-05
TRIAL SET FOR TWO
|NHOLD-UP CASE
A. M. Knapp, Il. Arrested in
Pennsylvania, Not Son of
Baltimore Attorney.

Alexander NJ Knapp of Baltimore,
q -vear-old Yale senior, lodged in jail
In waynesboro, Pa, yesterday with a
classmate. s. R. Prince, jr., 81. Of Wash
ington, on charges of assault with in
tent to rob and impersonating an officer
is not son of or is he related to
Charles Knapp, prominent Baltimore at
torney. as was at first reported from
Waynesboro-an identification that was
carried in The Evening Star yesterday
in an account of the case.
Instead, he Is the son of the late Alex
ander Payson Knapp, one time balti-
more banker, and Mrs. Maris Knapp.
The youths were released yesterday
afternoon under bond of 1000 each.
furnished by Judge Eugene ODunne OF
Baltimore.
Their account of the incident which
led to the charges makes 1t appear in
the light of a prank which turned out
disastrously,
Police Give Account.
The account furnished by George Z.
Bvers, chief of police at Waynesboro,
and based, according to Byers, ON the
story of H. M. Rowe. Waynesboro grocer
the complainant follows:
Rowe and Harold Hill the latter col
ored, were en- route to Washington early
Yesterday with load Of peaches, when
their truck was forced to the side oil
the road and halted by the two youths
in an automobile who demanded a
quart" At that juncture Rowe said.
another car came along and the two
Youths left. Becoming alarmed after
the incident, Rowe said he gave his
pocketbook with SITS 10 Hill, and that
after he had turned of the Waynesboro-
Baltimore road to the road leading to
Thurmont the youths again came up
in their car, forced him TO stop and
placed what he thought was pistol
at his side Then. he said, one OF the
youths went into Hill's pockets and
took the pocketbook.
They then alighted and were stand
ing in the glare of the truck lights IN
specting the money, according TO the
account OF the chief of police. when
Rowe. seeing that what he had thought
was a revolver was only pipe, leaped
from the truck, tusseled with the youths,
regained his pocketbook and fed TO
Blue Ridge summit. where he re-
ported the case and got assistance
Tell Of Attack.
James Devices. John Fitz and john
Tracey, who responded to Rowes APP
neal then are said to have gone back
10 where the truck stood, and there,
they claim, they were attacked by the
two Youths. They overpowered them:
and the pair were lodged in jail. CnieI
,Ryers said he could tell the youths
I,ad hepY drinking
According to the version offered IN
behalf of the two boys, they had peer,
week end guests with a number OF
others at a cottage at Blue Ridge sum-
mitt. and. attending a dance tnete
Monday night, had several cocktails
About / 80 am they started out on
an automobile ride, 1t was said, ana on
the drive saw the heavily laden truck
and thought 1t was bootleggers con-
veyance.
THE truck was not In an unfrequent..
ed part of town, but In the center OF
the town and when opposite the pas,
senger depot 1t was stopped, and Waveo
to the sidewalk, 1t Is added. The driver
and his helper then got down and were
questioned Ii lis said as to whether the
truck contained liquor. ,
There was O scuffie with Hill, the
colored helper, and one OF the youths
missed his pocketbook and took
noeketbook from Hill, thinking 1t ms
own. Upon examination. he was saio
to have determined that 1t did not pc
long to him and turned 1t BACK to
Rowe's helper.
While Rowe ran for help the youths
made no attempt TO escape. II Is sala'
and they we're taken into custody Wneil
the three men who went to the grocer
aid arrived.
II was admitted that the grocer was
Justified in seeking assistance against
what seemed TO him TO be real
hold-up
The hearing of Knapp and Prince
was set for September ID.