Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-01
Messenger, Making Calls on
Customers, Is Abducted
Walking Along M Street and
Thrown From Car in Park.
ROBBERS COOLLY DRIVE
OUT 18TH WITH CAPTIVE
Obey Traffic Lights En- Route to
Rock Creek Area-Satchel, Con-
tanning Checks and Bond, Found
on Iowa Avenue by Laundry
Company Driver.

Boldly abducting a bank run
ner as he walked through the
downtown business district short
ly before noon today, three men
in an automobile took a $4,000 pay
roll he was carrying, sped with
him to Rock Creek Park, where
he was unceremoniously dumped
from the car, and escaped.
It was the second pay roll rob-
berry here in "a hours.
The bank runner-Gilbert E.
Hyatt, jr., II years old. of 1918
Nineteenth street, employed by
the Mount Vernon Savings Bank,
at Ninth and K StreetS-was held
up on M street between Four
teenth and Fifteenth while on his
way to the Union Cooperative
Insurance Co., half block away.
There were three men in a road
Ster, he said. One of them, draw
ing pistol, forced Hyatt into the
automobile, and the man at the
wheel started driving out Six
teenth street.
Displaying the same brazeness which
characterized the $1,000 robbery at the
Children's Hospital yesterday the
bandits drove calmly several miles out
Sixteenth street, maintaining a steady
pace, but never violating one of the
scores of traffic lights, until they
reached Sheriff. drive into Rock Greek
Park just opposite Walter Reed Hos
pital.
Give Him Car Numbers.
The car later turned down Sheriff.
drive and proceeded into Rock Greek
Park, where the men forced Hyatt from
the car and relieved him of the money,
the total sum amounting to approxi-
mately $1,000, Hyatt told police.
The men, Hyatt said, sarcastically
gave him the number of the automobile
license plates. and while police are
checking on this number they feel 1t
will give them, perhaps, but little aid in
experimenting the robbers, believing the
tags were dead.
AS the robbers sped away. Hyatt
found Park Policeman j. F. Connolly,
to whom he related the story of the
hold-up and subsequent robbery.
Connolly took the youth to No. Is
precinct where he was questioned by
police and later taken in tow by head
quarters detectives, who were planning
to go with him over the scene of the
robbery.
Bag Is Found on Iowa Avenue.
One hour later the bag, containing
checks and a negotiable bond, was
found in the middle of the street
on Iowa avenue by Charles A. Brown,
a driver fer the National Laundry, who
was driving TO the home of customer
in the $500 block. The cash was gone.
Brown said he spied the satchel ly-
ing in the middle of the street and he
stopped his truck to make a further ex-
animation He said when he found the
name of the bank on the case and eX-
amined its contents, he immed ately got
In touch with the bank officials.
Hyatt told police that the robbers
after forcing him from the car, told
him to go into the woods. After walk
ing toward the woods until the robbers
disappeared, Hyatt began his hurried
search for the policeman. The man who
drew the pistol on Hyatt was described
by the latter as being between Is and
80 years in age and of medium height.
He said the man wore Panama hat,
O blue suit and tan shoes.
The man who drove the car, Hyatt
said. was about 25 years of age, wore
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