Evening star., 1930-12-10
SEVEN CAB DRIVERS
ARE ROBBED OF S53
i'm HOLD-UP SERIES
Grocer Loses 1888 to Armed
Bandits Who Enter Store
Early Today.
MACHINES ARE TAKEN
BY HACK PASSENGERS
Pair Who Rifled Merchants Pockets
Answer Description of Men
Who Prey on Taxis.

Continuing their attacks upon taxi
cabs, bandits held up seven drivers ant
robbsd them of $50 late last night ant
early today. The cars taken were al
later recovered.
Meantime, two colored men answering
the description of a pair who have rob
bed several cab drivers in the Capita
this week entered the grocery stort
of Morris Freedman at Second and
streets southwest early this morninI
and escaped with $3.50.
Driver Pushed from Car.
Noah Lee Best of 929 H street south.
west, a driver for the Astor Cab Co., re.
ported to police he was held up and re.
lieved Of $915 by two colored men II
the 1900 block of Macomb street, aftel
which he was driven into Maryland anS
pushed from his machine.
A short time later a white mar
hailed William j Mitchell of Bladens
burg, Md, at New York avenue neal
Ninth street and forced him to drive
into Rock Creek Park, where he tool
$500 from the hacker at pistol poin'
and fed. The robbery was staged al
Military and Ridge roads, Mitchell said
At Sixteenth and Reservoir streets
WA 41dIVS1 liza SJTGGL uOTLfl'
east, turned over SIS in change to 9
hoid-up man and then watched tn.
robber drive of in his machine. HI
reported to police.
Fourteenth precinct police were tolC
by Andrew Wilkins of 1880 G stree
northeast, that he had been robbed Of
SO on Connecticut avenue at Chevy
Chase Circle after driving his passenger
from Fourteenth and K streets.
Car Found Abandoned.
Sherman Wiley, 1902 Porter street
told police he had q pistol pointed al
him when he turned toward Sthe bach
seat to collect his fare from a man HI
had picked up at Fourteenth and I
streets and taken to the Soldiers Home
grounds. Wiley relinquished $9.65 anc
his taxi.
Six dollars were turned over to a
bandit at the foot Of Good Hope Hill
by James T. Healy, 619 A street north
east. who was forced to quit his cab at
the point of pistol, according to q
report made to police Of the eleventh
precinct.
According to police report a robber
sat nonchalantly In the rear of a taxi
operated by George Israel of 28O4
Fourteenth street, and trained q pistol
on Lsraers back while the hacker car
ried out an order to drive him from
downtown Washington to Mount Yer
non avenue, at point near the Army
and Navy Country Club In Arlington
County.
There he took IsraeIs collections for
the night-amounting to $7-a rain
driver to walk back to the city.
Robber Takes Overcoat.
The series of taxicab hold-ups were
preceded last night by q robbery in
which an armed colored youth accosted
Joseph Goldsmith of 1928 Four-and-a
half street southwest, at Sixth and /
streets southwest, and took the latter's
overcoat.
Freedman, the grocer victim, told
police he had opened his store at day.
light. when two colored men strolled in
ana ordered Freedman to keep quiet
while he searched his pockets.
The robbers found $288 in cash.
which Freedman had on his person.
and then backed for the door, still
keeping the store proprietor covered
with pistol.
Freedman heard an automobile start
on from the curb. He did not venture
TO go to the window, however. and
never saw the machine in question.
Freedman's wife and son were up-
stairs at the time and knew nothing Of
the hold-up until it was over.
Other Robberies Reported.
other robberies reported included the
following victims: William M. Free
ney, $1050, and Irwin Abrams, $3.50.
both OF the Cathedral Mansions: Miss
Clara Charice, $40, and Miss Rhoda
Watkins, So, both teachers at Mckinley
High School; Mrs. Anna Bradley. I43
Carroll street southeast, two rings val
ued at $33; Dumas Redmond. 1929
Thirteenth street, clothing and jewelry
valued at 500 and So in cash; James
kalonturos, 927 Quincy street, wearing
apparel valued at $500, and Walter L.
Carter, 1109 o street, clothing and Jew
ely valued at $75.
Among others who reported thefts to
the police were: John Marshall. Belle
vue road southeast; Charles Brown,
1901 Fifth street; Benjamin Jeweler,
24OO Georgia avenue; Mrs. Louise Ha-
den, Mendoza Apartments; Mary Boyd,
1907 Eighteenth street, and Joseph
1skow, 1905 Forty-f1fth street.