Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-04
WOMAN AIDS GANG
LOOT|NG FUR STORE
Believed to Have Been
Wounded When Bandits
Driven Away by Policeman.

A woman member of a band of rob-
bers who attempted simultaneously to
break into two G street fur stores early
this morning is believed to have been
wounded by one of five shots fired after
their fleeing car by Policeman F. r.
Rabbi of the first precinct.
At only one of the furrier shops were
the marauders successful in obtaining
loot. Two fur coats, valued at $1,000,
we're taken from smashed show win
dow of the Francke fur store, at 1928
G street. The window of the William
Rosendorf fur store, at 1915 @ street,
was shattered with heavy instrument,
but the men there apparently were
frightened away by the report Of Ra-
bills gun before they could remove the
glass and reach the valuable furs in
side.
Hears Screams From Car.
The belief that a woman was with
the robbers is a result of the observa-
ton by Headquarters Detective Charles
E. Warfield of a car answering the de-
which stopped at Seventh and H
streets.
Warfield was on plant" there when
he saw a big green touring car draw
up to the curb. He said that he could
hear a woman's screams coming from
the rear seat but he could not see her.
One of the men got out of the machine,
glanced around and evidently saw the
detective, because he Immediately got
back into the car, which moved north
on Seventh street.
The robbery occurred about 2:30
o'clock this morning. Rabbi, in the
course of patrolhng his beat, was trying
the rear doors of an F street store al
most directly in rear of the Francke
establishment when he heard the crash
Of glass. 49,,
and was hurrying to get through trying
the doors along the alley when they
broke the window" Rabbi declared to-
day. ST ran around Francke's to G
street. AS got there ! saw big green
car with two men in 1t start toward
Thirteenth street.
st called to them to hold up a min
ute and when they didn't stop l drew
my gun and started shooting. hreo
FIVE shots before they got so far away
that it was useless. had to be care
L
one walking along the street. Two or
three of the bullets probably hit the
automobile, but don't think either OF
the men were struck. Twas trying to
hit the tires, but I was running at the
time and it was pretty hard to aim
straight in the dim light.
Burglar Alarm Is Sounded.
The machine continued east on @
e. &c TOE UJnaFn
thought the men who tried to break into
Rosendorf'S store we're picked up. Then
it turned north and no more was seen
of 1t until Warfield sighted it or SINH
lar car at Seventh and H streets.
The breaking of the glass at 1928 @
street sounded the burglar alarm in
the Mutual District Messenger Co. Of
fees at 1905 G street and Special Police
men George A. Davis and j. Cecciel were
rushed to the scene. They arrived just
as Rabbi stopped shooting at the dis
appearing automobile.
At the Rosendorf store, the tape which
sets of the burglar alarm was not
broken and the gong did not sound.
The coats taken from Franckes were
snatched through the hole in the show
window and several other fur pieces
were found scattered on the street, where
the robbers had dropped them in their
ildSJ6 10 get away oCIlJdIiiul .. T LaAlShCs
1913 Randolph street, proprietor, said
that both stolen coats were of Japa-
nese mink with white fltch collars and
cuffs. He valued each at 5000.
Rabbi said today that he did not see
a woman with the two men in the car
at which he fired. Warfleld was I'M
able to say how many persons were in
the machine when he observed 1t. The
two compared notes and, according to
the detectives, there Is little doubt
that the car in both cases is the same
machine.