Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-27
REVOLVER BATTLE
At MARYLAND INN
MAY PROVE FATAL
slew Boy" Dietz in Hospital
as Police Hold Sol Munitz
and Seek Couple.
AUTO FOUND WRECKED,
WITH PISTOL NEARBY
Patient, With $1,000 in Pocket,
Refuses to Give Light on 2 Am.
Fight Near Hyattsville.

A man in whose pockets were found
nearly $1,000 lies in Sibley Hospital
Washington, with little chance of re-
covery from bullet wounds in his abdo-
men and left leg his lips tightly sealed
to repeated police questioning about q
fight in the Prince Georges Inn, for
rnerly Rams Horn Inn, near Chillum
Md. early this morning, in which two
other persons are believed to have been
shot.
Police described the gun fight in
which William Jew Boy Dietz, "a, OF
the 1900 block Sixteenth street, was
probably MORALLY wounded. and the
other two persons, man and girl, be-
lieved hurt, as row between boot
leggers and gamblers"
Told he was likely to die, Dietz today
steadfaStly refused to "squeal" and
offered police only the information that
just after the shooting, which occurred
at about 2:30 o'clock this morning, he
saw man and girl run out of the
Prince Georges Inn holding their
breasts as If wounded.
No Trace of Pair Found.
Washington and Prince Georges
County police have made a complete
check of the Capital hospitals and the
doctors of the Maryland county, but
have failed to find any trace of the
pair believed to have been wounded.
Sheriff Charles S. Early of Prince
Georges County is holding Sol Munitz
OF the 800 block Four-and-a-H Half
street, who brought Dietz to Sibley
Hospital, at Marlboro today for ques-
tioning. According to police, MunitZ
also refuses to shed any light on the
shooting.
After a conference between county
Parran, Munitz was held on a charge
of being an accessory to aiding and
abetting the shooting of DietZ.
Bond of $1,000 was set for MunitZ's
release this afternoon by Prince Georges
County authorities. Munitz will be re-
leased as soon as bond Is posted, 1t was
announced.
A friend of Munitz appeared at the
Marlboro Courthouse with an attorney,
saying tlIdb llC lld0 NouAC " SCo %N,OoO
and a ring which he said DietZ had
given MunitZ. He had not been allowed
to see Munitz.
A car in which the persons RESPONSE
BILE for the shooting are believed by
police to have attempted to make their
escape lies wrecked on bridge near
the inn in which the shooting took
place.
a. In
shooting, was found, with its magazine
empty, near the wrecked automobile.
Police find much in their investiga-
ton today by which to connect the
shooting with the liquor running
racket In the Capital.
Munitz is alleged to have told Deputy
Sheriff q. w. Hepburn of Prince
Georges County that he recently served
year and five days for liquor law
show that Munitz was arrested by De
tective c. A. Berry in August, 1926. with
another man, after an automobile chase,
and sentenced to two years IN the
penitentiary for using a smoke screen
and violating the prohibition laws.
Plates Believed Identified.
The ear, which was found abandoned
after it had sideSwiped the bridge neal
the inn, bears license plates which
police say were issued to man known
to them as a bootlegger.
According to Deputy Sheriff Hepburn
who, with Sergt. H. @. Machen and
Policeman Claude Reese of the Prince
Georges force, investigated the shooting
into the reception hall of the inn from
, an adjoining small dance hall.
The police declared that there had
been an argument going on in the hal
between several men whom they expec;
to arrest today.
Police are unable to say how many
shots were fired Dietz was hit three
times. once in the abdomen and twice
in the left leg. The bullets were from
25-caliber automatic pistol. Police
traced two other bullets, one embedded
in a door and hole in window, where
another had sped.
The shooting occurred two hour!
after the Prince Georges police had Wis
tied the inn. and, after arresting ont
man on a fugitive warrant from Vir
GINA, had reported "all quiet" in thu
place.
Is Talley Day Arrested.
III The man arrested by Deputy Sheriff
Hepburn on the first trip to the I'M
was Talley Day, alias Isaac Day, ALA
Talley Dayeu, and he was brought u
Washington and booked at the Twelfth
precinct station for investigation. Da
is the same man who was arrested an
questioned in the investigation Of tn
death of John j. Grady last year. Grad
fell through a skylight Of Fourteenth
street apartment house and was killed
II None of the proprietors of the in
tDuld be located by the authorities afte
the shooting. At the inn this mornin
the only man on the premises was
foreigner who claimed the proprietor
the inn was man named Donaldson
but could give no information as
"Donaldsons" whereabouts.
Marlboro Courthouse records sho'
that Frank w. Moran of Hyattsvill
took out traders, restaurant and Gig
arctic sellers licenses for the inn las
February.
Like Green Gables Case.
The testimony offered at the hearin
before States Attorney Parran strikingl
resembled that given in the Gree
Gables roadhouse shooting, which re
suited last March in the death
Charles Wesley Poutra
Munitz told the States attorney h
reached the roadhouse about i
O'Clock. AS he entered, he said, a
argument was in progress between w
men. The crowd separated then
however. and the two men retired to
private room.
Munitz said he danced with an ur
known partner and then went outsle
to cool off. While standing by his ca
he said he heard two shots flred
rapid succession. Dietz ran out of tt
inn Jumped in his own car and Gale