Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-13
Police Seize Four in Ashley
Apartment After Nearby
Store Is Looted.
PH0NED IN EARLY
HOUR BY OCCUPANT
Apparel Valued at $3.50 Claimed
by Dealer as Prisoner, Police
Say, Confesses.

A dumb waiter that squeaked and
made queer noises in the hush before
dawn today caused the arrest of three
men and a woman, who are held by
police for investigation in connection
with the robbery of the haberdaShery
of j. 7. KlawanS at 2002 Eighteenth
street. Some person in the Ashley
Apartment at 2038 Eighteenth street
heard the dumb waiter and telephoned
the police.
Detectives D. B. Crooke and R. W.
Hopkins of the eighth precinct re-
sponded and caught, they say, Charles
Robert Bolton sending up on the dumb
waiter to an apartment above mis-
cellaneouS assortment of mems and
women's clothes, alleged to have been
stolen from the store operated by Klaw-
ans, shortly after midnight. The mute
testimony of a jimmied door in the
Klawans establishment was said by
police, together with the character of
the goods sent up on the dumb waiter,
to connect them with the robbery.
In the apartment above were found
ton as a fireman and his address in
the 1400 block N street. David Russell,
who said he is doctor and lives in the
Ashley apartment, and a woman, who
gave her name as Alma Russell, and
claimed to be the wife of the doctor.
All were taken to the eighth precinct,
from which the woman was subsequent
ly sent to the House of Detention, while
police checked up on list of the goods
said by Klawans to have been stolen
from his shop.
Confession Is Reported.
At the precinct police said Bolton
confessed his connection with the rob-
berry, and was said to have implicated
the other two men. Wearing apparel
of the value of between $500 and 1910
was said by Klawans to have been
stolen. Police said the articles found
in the apartment checked with the
goods taken from the haberdashery.
The loot included women's dresses, hose,
scarfs, caps. blankets, robes, collars,
belts, cuff links, neckties and mems
shirts, together with miscellaneous
assortment Of small articles of clothing.
Small time burglars were also active
Saturday night, according to reports to
police, who were told that four stores
were broken into during the night, and
miscellaneous articles. including gro
cerieS and meats, a small amount of
cash, an evening dress and other wear
ing apparel, taken.
4IucFcS OIOkc through rear WIN
dow in the store of Bernard Abrams.
1911 H street northeast, and stole, ac-
cording to Abrams, a box of cheese,
seven chickens, six pounds of butter,
four pork loins, eight pounds of lard. a
box OF bacon and quantity of Gig
aretteS.
Cash Register Robbed.
Burglars broke a glass panel in the
store of George Hillow, 1000 Seven
tenth street, and stole $40 from the
cash register, while some individual
with a flair for elaborate evening
clothes entered the store of Morris
Needle, 421 H street northeast, and
stole a black evening dress trimmed
with fish scales, valued at $50. Wear
ing apparel valued at 1855 was taken
from the store of Paul Harmed, 100
Four-and-a-Half street, by thieves who
broke a show window
The homes OF William v. Nessley, 5l8
Concord avenue, and William Smith,
III Massachusetts avenue, also were
robbed. Fifty-two dollars was taken
from the pocketbook of Nessley, while
Smith said his home was robbed of
suit case. handbag and a gold brace
let. Pernell Brown of 926 Bennett
place. Baltimore, was walking along
Six-and-a-Half street Saturday night
with a coat over her arm when some
one Snatched it from her. The hen
house of Harry Rousseau, 1898 r street.
was entered and seven chickens valued
at $12 were taken.