Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-05
Maryland Officials Investi-
gate Story of Attack
in Road House.
ALL THREE PRINCIPALS
HELD IN INVESTIGATION
Men Charge Larceny, Asserting
Companion Took Stickpin and
Watch From Trousers of One.

The sensational story of a young
Washington married woman, who says
she was enticed into a Maryland road
house by two men Sunday night,
stripped of her clothing, and attacked
before she could escape and make her
way back to the District in the mascu-
line attire of her alleged assailants:
was being Investigated by Maryland
authorities today, while all three of
the principals are under arrest.
The woman, Mrs. Muriel Pyeatt, 20,
of the 1400 block of K street, is being
held in lieu of $500 bond in the Hyatts-
vile Jail on charge of larceny. The
charge was preferred against her by
the two men after she had secured
their arrest for the alleged statutory
ofIenSe.
The men, George Godfrey and Talley
Day, were released under $4,000 bond
each by Justice of the Peace Robert
E. Joyce of Hyattsville. A preliminary
hearing will be held tomorrow before
Judge j. Chew Sheriff in Hyattsville.
In a sworn statement submitted to
Policewoman Hazel K. Mansfield, Mrs.
Pyeatt told of the alleged assault.
She said that early Sunday evening
q man she knew and a stranger came
to her home and after short visit the
stranger suggested they visit a woman
friend of his in the 300 block of Four
tenth street.
Told Men She Needed Money.
Arriving there, she said, they had
some refreshments and met Godfrey
and Day. In the course OF a converse
ton. she states, she told the men that
she had been out of work and needed
money to support a minor child. Day,
she declared, then told her that she
had q good voice and suggested that
he might be able to secure employment
for her as an entertainer at the Iron
Lantern Inn, formerly known as Green
Gables. It was suggested, she said,
that they ride out to the roadhouse to
determine the possibility of securing
employment for her. and that the three
of them left on that mission.
On arriving at the inn, Mrs. Pyeatt
said she asked the men to wait before
introducing her to the manager while
she looked the place over. They had
food and several drinks but Mrs. Pyeatt
SAYS she was ~ no time intoxicated.
They stage: at the inn, she said, until
the Establishment was closed for the
night, wren the men began to insult
her She declares in her statement
that she ran out of the inn and climbed
onto the running board of an automo-
bile, but that the two men pursued ana
dragged her off. Then. she says, they
stripped of all of her clothing and
carried her back into the inn, where
the alleged assault occurred.
After the men had gone to sleep, Mrs:
Pyeatt says, she donned the shirt and
trousers of one and again fed from the
inn. This time she hailed motor1st
who took her to a filling station in the
District. from which place she called
o taxicab and was driven to her home.
Found Diamond Stickpin.
While at the filling station. she says,
she found a diamond stickpin and a
gold watch in the trousers, which she
removed in the presence Of the man
ager Later, the automobile registra-
ton card of one of the men and $6l
in cash was found in the trousers by
Policewoman Mansfield.
Justice of the Peace Joyce said the
warrants for the arrest of the two men
were issued on complaint of Francis
j. Stoegerer. Washington attorney, who
with j. Robert Esher, represents Mrs.
Pyeatt. Godfrey and Day were taken
into custody by Chief of Police Eugene
Plummer of Mount Rainier.