Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
THIRD BANK BANDIT
SUSPECT ELUDES
WIDESPREAD HUNT
implicated in "Confessions"
of 2 in Custody, Police
Claim.
TRAFFIC TANGLE Baked
$4,000 ROBBERY PLAN
District Authorities Declare Trio
Trailed Runper to Treasury
Earlier, but Lost Prey.

Playing hide-and-seek with Wash
ington police, youth sought as the
third member of the trio which Friday
morning abducted young runner for
the Mount Vernon Savings Bank and
robbed him of a $4,000 pay roll, last
night still was at liberty, having eiuded
several traps set by police and spoiled
what otherwise was a quick bit of
work in clearing up the robbery.
Police are looking for P. c. Embrey,
implicated, they claim, by the confess
sions of his two alleged confederates,
who are in custody, and by other
threads of evidence obtained in the in
vestigation of the robbery.
Last night police were without a clue
to the whereabouts of Embrey, but be-
ieved him still to be hiding in the
Capital after having made at least one
unsuccessful attempt to escape into
Maryland.
Two Held without Charge.
Meanwhile police are holding, with
out formal charges, the two youths they
say have confessed taking part in the
robbery. They are Morris C. Beck, ID,
1928 Fourteenth street, and Carl Ben
jamin> Davis, 90 1914 A street north
east. Both youths are locked in cells
at the Thirteenth precinct.
How the trio planned to make a
much larger haul, $4,000 which the
young runner earlier Friday morning
had carried from the Treasury to his
bank, and were baked by traff1c jam,
also was told, police say, in the con-
LESSONS of Davis and Beck.
The original plan of the robbery,
police say was for the runner to be
quietly persuaded to enter their car
with the $780, 900 and driven of to some
secluded place. relieved of the money
and then set free.
Lost In Traffic Tangle.
In their machine the trio is alleged
to have followed the runner to the
Treasury, watched him come out and
then take up the trail again. just as
they were about to pounce upon him,
the police say, their car became delayed
in traflc tangle and the plan went
awry.
The trio, however, kept on the trail
Of the runner, and when he next ap-
peared coming from the bank they fol-
lowed him, pounced on him, took him
for little ride out Sixteenth street,
then took the money, a pay roll destined
for the Union Cooperative Insurance
Co. Offices, near Fifteenth and M streets.
Embrey slipped through the first
police net yesterday morning at IL
o'clock when he failed to keep a pre-
arranged rendezvous with Beck at the
Earle or Fox theaters. Police had in
formation that Embrey expected to
meet his alleged confederates either
at the Earle Theater or in front of the
Fox Theater. Plain clothes men were
stationed in the vicinity of both play
houses, with accurate descriptions of
the man. obtained from the police
"rogues gallery" But Embrey failed
to keep his appointment and police set
out on a different tack to apprehend
him.
Recover S4OO OF Loot.
An extraordinary lookout order was
broadcast to captains of all precincts,
to police of nearby towns and to dealers
in secondhand automobiles. The look
out stressed the Importance of the case,
and called for the utmost diligence on
the part of police officers.
Police had seized about $500 believed
to be part of tho money taken in the
robbery following the arrest of Beck
and Davis. Last night they believed the
rest of the $4,000 was in Embrey's pos
session.
Police next were hot on the trail of
man believed TO be Embrey, who sought
TO buy an automobile from L. M. Wal
den, constable at Hyattsville. who also
works in an automobile agency there.
Late yesterday afternoon a man an
Swering the general description Of En-
brey walked into the Hyattsville AUTO
mobile agency and negotiated with WAL
den for the purchase of car. The
man, according to Walden, appeared
nervous. He asked to see some second
hand cars. but after looking at few
left hurriedly.
few minutes later, H. G.. Machen.
sergeant on the county police force, and
Constable Norgle of Bladensburg arrived
with a description OF the man wanted
in Washington, which, they said, Tailed
In all respects with the man who had
sought to buy machine from Walden
Washington police were notified that
the man when last seen was headed
in the direction of Washington. They
were furnished with description of
the car he was driving.
City and county police patrolled the
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