Evening star., 1928-10-27
S|LVERS SPRING BANK
BANDIT CAPTURED
FTERS1,60O THEFT
Arrest Made at Robbers
Takoma Park Home Hours
Following Hold Up.
HAIL OF BULLETS FAILS
TO HALT FLEEING MAN
Miss Helen Hobbs, Sitting in Car
Outside, Suffers Wound in Ear
by Stray Shot.

held I'D the assistant cashier and
escaped through volley of bullets with
$1,000 OF the banks funds. A stray shot
penetrated the ear of Miss Helen Hobbs,
%, of Linden, Nd, who was sitting in an
automobile outside the bank.
Another shot tore through an over
coat worn by H. D. Bodine, who was
passing at the time. He was uninjured.
Jumping from a taxicab, the bandit
escaped and disappeared IN the
woods in the vicinity of the Washing
ton Sanitarium at Takoma Park, Md.
Posses of Montgomery County police
were quickly organized and began to
scour the woods, while police of the
thirteenth precinct of Washington were
searching for the man in Takoma Park,
d. C.
At lis this afternoon the Mont
gomery County police announced that
they had arrested Hugh L. Mcdaniel,
80 years old, at his home, 80 Columbia
avenue, Takoma Park, Md, and that
the money has been recovered. APP
prehension of Mcdaniel is said to have
resulted fro a mysterious telephone cali
to taxicab Office in Washington. The
caller asked for a certain taxicab driv-
er who recalled having talked to man
several days ago about trip to Balti-
more. The driver Immediately notified
the police, who accompanied him on
the call
Taken to Town Jail.
The arrest was made by Sergt. Guy
L. Jones and Officer Earl Burdine of
the Montgomery County force. He was
taken to police headquarters at Silver
Spring
The robber entered the bank at sos
am, shortly after it had opened for
business. There were patrons in the
bank when he approached Fred L. Lutes,
the assistant cashier, and asked What
do you have to do to get loan nere2
"F1ave you made any previous ar
rangenents?" asked LEteS.
mo-" replied the stranger.
Told to See Cashier.
"Then you have to see the cashier, .
said Lutes, and turned for a moment
to his left to point to the office of Ira
G.. Whitacre. When he glanced back
he was looking down the muzzle OF a
gun.
aGive me ali you've got" snapped
the stranger.
Don't shoot, I'll give it to you," Lutes
replied, and handed through the win
dow $4,000 in currency, which he was
just about to arrange in the various
drawers for the days business.
Whitacre, hearing the conversation,
seized his gun and started to the back
of Lutes' cage. The robber hastily
gathered up the money and ran to
the front door. Whitacre ran back
through his own Office and opened
fire, firing three shots before the rob-
Der got through the door. Lutes seized
his pistol and fired two more shots.
1t was LuteS' second shot that struck
Miss Hobbs. IN the right ear She had
been sitting alone in a car in front
of the bank. Her escort, Bradford Fox,
was standing beside the car and ducked
at the sound of the shots. When he
saw that she was hurt, he drove her to
the office of Dr. Hewlett nearby. The
physician treated her for flesh wound
in the ear and on the head. Her
injuries were not serious.
Started Toward Washington.
In the meantime, according to Fox,
the robber dropping two bundles of
currency in his haste, climbed into a
taxicab, f1ouriShed his gun and the
driver started toward Washington.
George F. Hamilton of Silver Spring,
with off1ces at 1909 New York avenue,
washington, also saw the escape, and
followed the burglar for several miles.
He reported that the man left the cab
and ran into the woods near the Wash
tngton Sanitariun in Takon1a Park. The
police Immediately sped to the woods
and started hunt.
After the shots fired inside the bank,
Whitacre fired two more at the fleeing
taxicab, neither of which appeared to
have taken effect. One of the first bull
lets to be fred went through the plate
glass front door of the bank and the
second lodged in the plaster above the
door. There was report which could
not be confirmed that one of them had
passed through the shoulder of the
bank bandits overcoat without hurting
the man.
5000 Dropped by Bandit.
Lawrence Lutes, the young son of the
assistant cashier, who was standing
outside at the time of the shooting,
reported that the cabs number was
L-145, and that the company number
was 301. Citizens picked up the
dropped currency, which amounted to
5000, and returned it to bank officials.
The banks net loss was then $1,000.
This is said to be covered by burglary
Insurance amounting to $4,000.
The bank was organized in 1910, and
moved to its present home in 1925. 1t
has never been the victim of hold
up before.
C. e. Mcfarland, the taxi driver, re.
ported the hold-up to the Washington
police as soon as his passenger jumped
out of the cab His employers sent hin
to police headquarters, where he re.
lated his version of the robbery to Capt
Walter Emerson, acting day chief of de-
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