Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-10
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BFRARMED BANDITS
Pair Escape With $1,436.51
in Stolen Taxi After Binding
Driver in Chevy Chase.
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the trip. he placed the bag at his feet
expecting to deliver it = the Capital
Traction Co. Office. Two passengers,
MIR. and Mrs G. A. Streng, were on
the car.
At Connecticut avenue and Aspen
street the bandits walked to the front
of the car and seized the bag. Mangum
apple street, where the men commanded
him not to move. They entered the
waiting taxicab that had trailed them
from Chevy Chase Lake.
License Tag Is Noted.
Police were told the car headed for
the District of Columbia at a fast rate
of speed. The license tag numbers.
however. were noted and later were
found to correspond with the number
issued Jordan
Jordan escaped from his bonds when
a colored laborer on his way to work
passed through the woods and saw
him. The rescuer, Richard Ellie, sum-
moned his son-in-law, Preston Davis
and they freed Jordan, who immedi-
ateiy went to Bethesda subStation and
reported to the police.
Policemen J. S. Oldf1eld and James
McAuliffe said they thought the men
had loitered around the Chevy Chase
Lake car barn on previous occasions
and had learned that a large amount
of money was carried on car No. 81
every Monday morning
The money bag, containing only street
Car transfers. was recovered near
Quantico. Va. early this afternoon, ac-
cording to police. The bag is said to
tn0v 1seA4
main highway.
Police of surrounding counties in
Maryland and Virginia and detective
bureaus of Philadelphia and other large
cities have been warned to watch for
the taXicab, large blue sedan bearing
tag number "H-535." 1t is thought,
however, that the robbers probably
abandoned the machine.
Thought They Were Students.
Maryland police were informed by
3 Jordan that he was hailed by the two
men carrying small handbag in the
600 block of Third street southwest
and ordered to drive to Chevy Chase
Circle. He thought they were college
boys On arriving at the circle, Jordan
said, the men commanded him to drive
out Connecticut avenue. A gun was
thrust in his back and he was ordered
TO drive to a spot on the new Silver
Spring-Bethesda road, approximately
mile from Connecticut avenue. They
reached a spot known as Calhouns
Woods at 4:40 o'clock this morning.
Ordering Jordan to remain silent, the
two men informed him they were
awaiting load Of whisky, but at 6:15
O'Clock third man walked up to the
car from the rear. After conversing in
low tones, the men ordered the taxicab
driver out of his machine and tied a
rope around his leg. forcing him to
walk into the woods, Jordan said
They had bottle of whisky and
asked me If wanted drink" Jordan
told police. But 1 didn't want any.
Th:y showed the gun into my side and
told me to drink anyhow and did
One OF the me nput his handker-
chief In my mouth, tied me to a tree
and then they left"
Shortly after noon today Detective
j. B. Billman of the fourteenth police
station found the taxicab used by the
[0nners abandoned in the $500 block of
CHEVY Chase parkway.
Clerk Beaten and Robbed,
Shortly after police received the
street car robbery report they were
notified that Joseph Hirshman. g.
year-old clerk at variety shop at l248
Seventh street, had been beaten into
unconsciousness by an unidentified man
at the store and robbed Of So
He was found lying behind a counter
by Ernest Fields, colored, 618 NJ street,
a trash man, who entered the store
half an hour later. Hirshman was
taken to Emergency Hospital, treated
for severe cuts and bruises to the head
and released.
He told police his aSsailant sneaked
up behind him and struck him with a
blunt instrument.
Using an iron bar, an unidentified in
dividual smashed a rear window of the
place of business of the American Stores
Co., 2008 Rhode Island avenue north
east, between closing Saturday and
opening time this morning, and stole
$36888 from the safe.
John A. Carter of 3515 Thirty-sixth
street, Mount Rainier, Md, manager of
the store, reported the robbery to police
OF the twelfth precinct.
Eight Other Robbories Reported.
Eight other robberies. all trivial were
reported to police, among them being
the case of James B. Ciretta, % years
old. OF Capitol Heights, Md, who told
police Of the seventh precinct that he
had been attacked in an automobile by
two men at Potomac and M streets and
robbed Of $13. He said the robbery
grew out of a gambling game. His I'M
1dentlf1ed attackers accused him of I'M
1alr means IN the game in order to win,
he told police. After beating him, he
said, the men threw him out of the
automobile.