Evening star., 1928-04-08
FOUR BANDIT CALLS
RECEIVED IN HOUR
Clerk FoiIs Thief; Another
Charged With Larceny.
Family Held Up.

Four bandit alarms. flashed into po-
lice headquarters between 7:30 and 8 $50
o'clock last night. sent police and de-
tectives flying to various sections OF the
city
A courageous young clerk In a chain
grocery store. en- route TO bank with
$500, outwitted a white bandit at Four
teenth and Belmont streets. who at the
point of pistol sought to walk him
INTO a secluded spot and rob him, by
darting away suddenly and running 10
safety into filling station ofice.
Another young clerk In a chain gro
cery store at Takoma Park, also en-
route to bank with $240 for deposit.
Secreted the money In q hollow tree
and falsely reported that he had been
held up and robbed by colored man.
Four members of q grocer'S family
were stood of in a room adjoining the
grocery store at 1918 Eighth street by
a colored bandit while his companions
held the proprietor at bay ana rined
the cash register Of $40.
Physician Is Robbed.
A colored physician. lured to the i'm
mediate vicinity OF the eighth precinct
police station on a medical call. was
held up and robbed by colored man
Of So and valuable papers.
James Coakley, 10 years old, 1905 N
street, a clerk In Piggly Wiggly
store at 2422 Fourteenth street, defled
the hold-up man and saved his en-
ployers' funds. While standing under
the brightly lighted canopy of the
Sullivan &; Herman filling station at
Fourteenth and Belmont streets,
directly across the street from the
store, ne was confronted by a bandit
who ordered him TO walk into the
shadows on Belmont street.
Temporarily obeying the bandits
command, Coakley started in that
direction and, taking the bandit by sur
prise. lodged from In front of his con-
cealed pistol and ran into the filling
station, The bandit did not follow.
G. I. limbaugh. manager OF the store,
told police ne noticed a man lurking
about the front of the place and with
this In mind he ordered Coakley To
board a street car for the bank at I4th
and Kenyon streets instead of walking
as was his custom. II was while wait
Ing Tor the car and seeking shelter from
the rain that the youth was approached
by the man who had followed him
across the street.
A charge of grand larceny was lodged
by the police OF the thirteenth precinct
against Rudolph Dettwei.er, 10 years
old, 5408 Ninth street, clerk In the
Atlantic s. Pacific store at 69l2 Fourth
street. Takoma Park. after he admitted
70 the officers that his story of being
robbed uf the stores money while en-
route TO bank was false The young
clerk had been dispatched TO a nearby
bank with the days receipts and re-
turned short time later with report
that he had been held up as he passed
vacant lot near the store and robbed
Of all the money. The bandit, he said.
pointed a pistol at him. took the money
and then returned the bank book. ex-
planning that he would get In trouble
II he failed TO return II.
Money Recovered.
Headquarters Detectives Harry Cole
and Clarence Talley were sent TO the
thirteenth precinct after the youth
made his report. questioned him and
left. Then Lieut.. J. Il. Bowers, Precinct
Detective I. G, Bragg and Sergt. J, II.
Hood renewed the questioning and
Dettweiler finally admitted, they said,
that he had secreted the money In a
hollow tree at the foot of Maple street.
He had intended calling by for It after
he finished his work. the police said,
Dettweiler declared. according to the
otIicers. that he has been assisting his
mother to purchase their small home.
The money was recovered.
Mrs. Elizabeth Holxer. proprietor OF
the grocery store at l6i6 Eighth street,
was standing In the doorway between
the store and a dining room In which
four members OF her family were seated
about q table. Two coiored bandits en-
tered. The occupants of the room
were held up by one OF the bandits
while the other brought Mrs HolEer
into the store and took the contents OF
the cash register One OF the bandits
cursed loudly and threatened to shoot
and so boisterous was his conduct that
the companion demonstrated with him
for his actions.
The two men had visited the store
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