Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-06
CAFE SAFE ROBBED
OF S1(9 ON AVENUE
IN WAVE OF THEFTS
CrackSmen Take Receptacle
to Kitchen and Break Off
Dial and Gear.
CHAIN GROCERY LOSES
$50 FROM ITS REGISTER
Two Men Held on HOUSEKEEPING
Charge When Found With
Shotguns.

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and in plain view of Pennsylvania ave-
nue., craftsmen last night or early to-
day robbed Sargeant's Restaurant, 1927
Pennsylvania avenue of approximately
$109. The robbery was one Of series
reported overnight.
The safe, containing the funds with
which the restaurants manager was
to have done his marketing this morn
ing, was carried from the front of the
cafe to the kitchen at the rear, where
it was opened by wrecking its combin-
alton dial and gear.
The robbery was discovered by VIII
liam H. Mattingly. manager of the res
taurant, on arriving to open the place
for the day. Mr.. Mattingly, who has
been opening the Sergeant Restaurant
daily for Is years, discovered first that
a cabinet beneath the cigar counter
was partially opened and then he saw
the 32-inch safe missing from its place
Without making further inspection
Mattingly went to the first precinct
police station. Returning with the
police, he found the emptied safe in
the kitchen.
Entered by window.
Mattingly said he had left $97.88 in
the safe when he left the establish
ment at $3.50 o'clock last night. An
additional $40 or $12 was left in 1t
by Leonard Sergeant, owner of the res
taurant. Entrance to the place was
gained by smashing q heavy screen at
a rear window.
Last nights robbery was the third
entrance burglars had made at Sar-
geant's restaurants. About year ago
the same place was robbed of ice cream
and cake and several years ago robbers
looted the cigar case of the original
Sargeant,s Restaurant at 500 Four
tenth street.
Two other burglaries and three hold
ups were included in the crop over
the night.
Chain Store Robbed.
A chain grocery at 1928 Wisconsin
avenue was entered through a rear
skylight and $52.54 stolen from the cash
register The robbery was discovered
when the store was opened this morn
ing.
Two men were locked up at No. /
police precinct and will be charged
with HOUSEKEEPING and robbery as a
result of some quick work early this
morning on the part of park police,
who said they found the pair with
couple Of shotguns taken from a sport
ing goods store in 900 block of D street.
The prisoners are Thomas Irving
Scanlon of the 1000 block of e street
southeast and Wilbur Crouch Of the 800
block OF Eleventh street southeast.
Two Men TraiIed.
About o'clock this morning. Sergt.
w. F. Shelton and Pvt. william z. Riley
of the United States park police OBJ
served two men getting out of taxicab
at Ninth and G streets. The police as
serted that the couple appeared to be
particularly interested in the store win
dows along q street, and the officers
trailed them for several blocks, finally
losing sight of the pair in the vicinity
of Ninth and E streets.
While Sergt. Shelton was making his
visit to the Smithsonian grounds about
$50 this morning he called Officer
Riley's attention to two men walking
south on the west side Of Twelfth street,
and the officers Immediately identified
these men as the ones they had followed
earlier. The pair was called upon to
stop, the police said, but they refused
to do so, and the officers then overlook
them, escorting them to the Smithson-
ian lodge house, where two shotguns,
wrapped in an overcoat,. were discov-
cred. The weapons were later identified
as stolen.
Robbed at Filling Station.
A bandit waved a revolver at Jesse
Brotherton last night, backed him
into the Office of the filling station at
Sixth street and Rhode Island avenue,
where Brotherton is an attendant, and
escaped with SIS, which he took from
the cash register.
The bandit stepped from the Office
inst plict0mQr drOUa I'm ssrTho
attendant will be right out" he said,
getting into an automobile and driv-
ing of.
The customer. however, was sus-
picious and obtained the first letter
and two numerals of the District tag
which the car displayed. Tracing the
tags, police have tentatively identified
the car as that stolen from Ninth
street and New York avenue earlier in
the evening.
Taxi Driver Held Up.
In another case two young white men
were reported to have hired a taxicab
here last night and then held up the
driver to rob him of So and tie him to
tree after he had driven them to
Chesterbrook, Va.
The driver, George G. Luenberg of
1925 Morse street northeast, said his
cries attracted the aCCenJl0n OF q pass
ing motorist, who released him. The
robbers, however, had driven off In his
cab, Luenberg said. The taxi, operated
by the City Cab Co., had not been re-
covered today.
Luenberg said he picked the men up
In front of the Park Lane Apartments,
Twenty-first and Pennsylvania avenue
Bus Boy Loses Cash.
In the other hold-up, in which three
men participated, Antonio Mahenog, 20
year-old bus boy at Wardman Park
Hotel was the victim, the robbery being
staged near the entrance to the hotel
grounds at 7 O'Clock last night, while
motorists and pedestrians were passing
frequently.
The men drove up, and while one
stayed in the car the other two hailed
the bus boy, and covering him with
pistols demanded his money, one accom-
panying the demand by striking him
on the head
The boy was threatened with death If
he made an outcry, and after submitting
to the robbery his assailants re-entered
their car and were driven off.
Two women's rings valued at $4,000,
the property of Mrs. Charles F. Cole
were reported stolen sometime Thurs
day night from her room at the Am
bassador Hotel.