Evening star., 1928-05-06
LONE HOLD-UP CLUE.
DENIED BY YOUTH.
Did Not Rob the One Sanitary
Store Where He Has Been
Identified, Says Bowling.

Although he had admitted five hold
ups of Sanitary Grocery Stores Milton
Charles Bowling. 90. 4447 Conduit road.
denies he was implicated In the only
case in which he has been identified. it
was revealed last night by police.
Bowling was returned here yestrday
morning from Pittsburgh, where he has
been under treatment In hospital for
two bullet wounds received in gun
battle here on April Ia with Detective
Frank M. Alligood
On the return trip he is said to have
confessed TO five hold-ups, two OF them
at the same store. He also admits
stealing six automobiles, it is said. He
WAS taken to each of the stores that he
confessed were held up, but none of
the victims was able 10 identify him
The hold-up man wore a mask during
the robberies.
Denies Third and Job.
The detectives then questioned him
/ concerning the holdup of the Sanitary
store at Third and r streets on April
10, He steadfastly refused 10 admit
that he had anything 10 do with that
case even when he was picked out by
/ Bcrnice Rollins. colored. 222 r. street,
as the bandit whose mask slipped from
mis- face when he fell over a box OF
fish during the hold-up
At the time of the robbery Alligood
was standing In the Detective Bureau
with pictures of three men whom he
suspected Of the series of Sanitary
hold-ups and he handed them 10 De-
tectives Richard Mansfield and Curtis
Trammell as they left to investigate
the case.
| While they were In the store they
showed the picture to the woman, who
was customer IN the store at the time
Of the robbery She Immediately
identified the picture OF Bowling as the
man whose mask fell from his face
A search for Bowling, however, was
unayailing until the local police heard
from Pittsburgh
Picked by Woman.
The woman picked Bowling from four
men who we're lined up at the Detective
Bureau yesterday for her inspection.
In the Third and II streets hold~up,
Enoch II. Waters, the manager lost $50,
and Neil McKellen. 4i2 Rhode Island
avenue, a customer was robbed OF $50
Bowling and his two companions,
police say. stole high-powered antomo-
hiies In which 10 escape after the rob-
/ berries, all of which occurred between
FAAALit sd anu ADllt Abs PtA va "tN1
automobiles were recovered,
II was while chasing one OF the stolen
cars that the occupants are said to have
fired ut Alligood He returned the fire
twice. The automobile in which they
We're riding was later found abandoned,
Bowling says that his companions,
whose names he is alleged 10 have fur~
nibhed police, took him 10 Pittsburgh,
placed him III the Homeopathic Hos
pltai and then abandoned him, Bowling
Is charged with seven ruhhefies and SIX
/ l0y-ridng eases Police say he was
placed on five years probation for JOY
riding when arraigned IN court six
| months ago
Neither Doubts Guilt.
Mrs Roy Bowling, the youths moth
er, saw him yesterday when Alligood
| brought him home She appeared to
take IL philosophical view nt his plight,
agreeing with another brother That 1T
will all come out IN the wash"
Mfg. Bowling doubted her son wah
| implicated In the robberles, saying the
| confession might have heen 'toreed''
out of him. and adding that lac always
Was broke and borrowing money" and
expressing the opinion that lac would
/ have had funds II he was engaged III
the hold d~uph,
Bowling lived at home with his par
| entA and four brothers until three weeks
| ago, according 10 his mother Three
weeks previously 10 that he had worked
/ in lunehro0m which was closed,
/ throwing him ont Of employment lie
had also worked 1T the Patent ONCE
Two yeaTS