The Washington times., 1929-05-27
Man SHOT.
IN FIGHT
At Inn

Sol Munltz, alias Black,
faced States Attorney j.
Frank Parran, Of Prince
Georges county, Nd, today to
tell what he knew of the
latest gang shooting to occur
in a suburban roadhouse.
Munitz. who has been at liberty
only a few months after serving q
two year sentence for violation OF
the prohibition and smoke screen
laws. was arrested when he drove
william Dietz, s5, of the 1900 block
Of sixteenth st. n. w, to sibley
Hospital at 3 a. hi. today, after the
latter had been shot three times.
once through the abdomen and twice
through the left leg. Dietz y pc
Iieved TO be dying.
Held As Accessory
A. a result OF the interview with
the states Attorney, Munltz was
held as an accessory to an assault
to kill.
The shooting took place at the
Prince Georges Inn, formerly Rams
Horn Inn. on the Queens ChapeI
Road. about two miles beyond
Rrookland. where about 20 WASH
inrton bootieggers and gamblers ana
their women had gone for the eve
ming.
police are soaring for = woman
seen ~ rim from the place holding
che had 0@GH
wounded. No trace of her has peeh
found. ..,.
States Attorney Parran. Were
Sheriff Charles Early and Deputy
Sheriff Arthur W. Hepburn, tns
latter being the first officer on the
scene after the shooting.
Lawyer Kept Away
In the deserted courtroom, which
is Just across a narrow hallway from
Parran't office, sat William B. O,Con-
nell, of the law firm of Whelan and
O'ConneIl. who drove hurriedly TO
Marlboro to represent Munitz. He
was denied access to Parran's Office
and was told he would have TO wait
| to see his client until the county OF
ficials were through questioning
! their prisoner. A bondsmen accom-.
panied O'Connell but bond had not
/ been arranged early thiS afternoon.
| The Prince Georges Inn was
| lisensed to operate under the
| manasement of Frank w. Moran,
who gave his address as Route l.
Hyattsville, Nd.
Restaurant, traders and cigarette
| licenses were mailed to him at that
address and were returned, 1t waS
disclosed by License Clerk s.. D.
! Hall. The licenses were issued on
| February 16, for three months and
expired on May 1. In the absence
of the license, Moran showed his
receipts to show that he had paid
the necessary fee. Since May /, i
is alleged, he has been operating
without q license.
The pistol with which the shoot,
/ ing was done, a .25 calibre auto.
matte is now in the possession Of
the police, Sheriff Early said.
Arthur w. Hepburn, deputy
sheriff of the county, said he went
to the inn at midnight with 8
/ fugitive.from-justice warrant for
! Talley Day, alias Isaac Day, who
described himself as a clerk, p
years old, living in the 1400 block
of Twenty-eighth st. N. W. Day j:
now held in the Twelfth precinct or
an investigation charge.
Hepburn is trying to reconstruct
what happened between midnight
and 2:30 o'clock. When he left
everything was quiet, he said, and i
was not until Dietz was taken tt
Sibley Hospital that he had knowT
a gunfigllt had occurred.
According to the information
Hepburn has received, q man anc
woman were seen to run from th'
roadhouse just as the report Of th'
shooting died away. The woman
was holding her side as il sh'
. had been shot.
Immediately behind the man art
woman ran the gang believed e
have done the shooting. Thes
Jumped into an automobile an'
[ headed toward Hyattsville. About ;
quarter of a mile down queens
Chapel Road, they sideswiped |
: bridge culvert, wrecking the car
j which they abandoned.
z A check-up of the license plat
showed the car was listed to 81
! alleged Washington bootiegger. HEP
! burn has been unable TO find gu
J how they made their escape afts
} they abandoned the car.
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