Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
Home of Relative of One
Yields Loot From Lyon
Village, Police Claim.
HUNT FOR THIRD MAN
PUSHED BY OFFICIALS
Member of Trio Is Identified by
Lord Baltimore Filling Station
Collector as Bandit.

here Friday today were definitely linked
with a series of robberies which for
more than month have terrorized resi-
dents of Lyon Village, Va. when Wash
tngton detectives and A 'ington County
police searched the home of relative
of a suspect in the hold-up and re-
covered a quantity of clothing and
jewelry taken in the Lyon Village homes.
Part Of the recovered loot was identi-
fed as articles stolen from the residence
of Thomas Flynn on Virginia avenue
in Lyon Village one of the 10 houses
entered during the series of rCbberles
which Melted the thieves approximately
$4,000.
Detective Sergts. Howard Ogle, Steve
Brodie and w. c. Bragg. accompanleq
bv Arlington County Policemen H. G.
Jones and John R. Burke, went to
house on GIebe road, in Arlington Coun-
ty shortly before noon and found the
clothing and jewelry. The house IS oc-
cypied by the grandmother of the third
suspect Being searched for in connection
with the bank-runner hold-up.
Push Hunt for Third Man.
Search for the third man in Fridays
hoId-up was being carried on with re-
neWed vigor this afternoon as the re-
suit of todayS development ana the
positive Identification last night OF one
of the men being held in the bank case
lector for the Lord Baltimore ming
stations of $1,000 on July Is.
This suspect has $4,000 of the bank
loot and also is wanted, police said, for
having taken part in the ROBBERY OF
BENJAMIN Burch. collector for the 70
Lord baltimore filling stations in this
area, who on July 10 was robbed OF
$1,000 in cash.
Buys Car in Hyattsville.
rI1.1. o.eortio,, made nv Y10liPp
after Burch yesterday identified Davis
as being the armed man who held him
at bay Although they are positive
in their identification, Davis has not
yet been charged with the robbery
Beck. police say. was not implicated In
this case, but they say they are posi-
tive that the hunted man was a par
ticipant.
The third suspect sought in connec-
tion with the Mount Vernon Bank case
and Davis lived for some time in the
house on Glebe road. detectives learn
ed. Several notes written to each otner'
but having no bearing on the robberies,
were found in the house by the ofhcers.
The suspect, police revealed TODAY,
succeeded in purchasing car IN
Hyattsville, Md, Saturday. He PAID
$500 for the machine. The auto sales
man who transacted the sale SAID the
suspect was accompanied by woman
and left Hyattsville for Baltimore i'm
mediately after the deal had been
closed.
Police were notified of the sale and
three automobiles from Detective Bu-
reau unSucceSSfulIy attempted 10 OVER
take the suspect.
The filling station robbery was staged
bv two men, who overpowered colored
taxicab driver at a lonely spot IN Ana
costa where they took his cab after
Ragging him and tying him TO tree
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Pennsylvania avenue, where one helo
Burch and Walter Tapscott. manager
of the station at that address, at the
point of gun and took the money from
the collector. The gunman made ms
getaway in the cab. which later was
abandoned in another section OF the
city.
Davis vigorously denied having any
connection with the LORD Baltimore
hold-up after being advised OF ms loen-
tiication in that case and told ponce
he was with the Marine Reserves IN
Ouantico, Va, on that day. A cheek
IN however. has revealed that Davis
was given permission by Marine au-
thorities to come to Washington on
July IS, detectives said. -
The two youths in custody VIII De
paraded before victims OF recent hoio-
ms at the 7 O'Clock line up at police
NAAN~@@N-~@~N-N
purposes. -
Formal charges of highway robbery,
policesaid, are to be placed against
Davis and Beck as soon as all lnVestl-
cations are completed.
Davis and Beck were arrested nearly
IL hours after three men forced HyaIG
into their machine at Fourteenth ana
M streets and drove him to ROCK
Creek Park. where they stole the money
he was carrying for the Mount vernon
Bank and then tossed him from theH
automobile. q,
Their arrest climaxed nearly "a
hours of continuous work on the case
by Detective Sergeants Howard Ogie'
Steve Brodie, T. c. Bragg, James Kane
and Precinct Detectives Denny Muir
ply and Elmer F. Lewis OF No. -
station.
Davis has been identified. police said.
as the leader of gang OF youths VINO
robbed a number of homes and business
houses here in 1925. He served sew
eral years at the Industrial home
School for Boys.
Seek Two Gangs"
Detectives also are searching for two
gangs of hoId-up men operating IN the
District, one of which robbed MISS
Eleanor Page, cashier at Chlldrens
Hospital, Of a $1,000 pay roll THURSDAY
morning. while the second gang Is
drivers IN Anacostla-
Inspector Shelby declared today that
valuable leads have been uncovered IL
the hospital case and that it soon may
be solved. The identity of the three
men sought in connection with the
robbery is said to be known to police.
Miss Page was summoned to ponce
headquarters last night to look at Beck
and Davis. but she declared they did
not resemble the men who robbed her.
A taxi driver was held up last night
in a remote part of Anacostia by three
men believed to be the same trio that
robbed a colored cab driver of $50 and
eft him trussed up in his cab Friday
night. The approach of a machine
frightened them away before they got
anything, however.
The driver, Jack c. Harper, of 4l9
G street told police he was hailed by
the men at Third street and Pennsyl-
yania avenue and ordered to drive them
to Congress Heights
They got out of the cab at the crest
of a hill on Nichols avenue extended
and told him TO hand over his money.
Harper was about to comply with their
order when the lights of an approach
ing car frightened the men into the
woods. Police searched the vicinity, but
ht,,,f a1ofled mt hing