Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
HOSPITAL PAY ROLL
OF $1,000 STOLEN
BY BANDIT HERE
Robber Knocks Down Girl
at ChiIdren's, Selling
Cash She Carried.
ESCAPES IN CAR
WITH CONFEDERATE
Attempt to Grapple With Hold-up
Man Is Balked-0ther Employees
Distanced in Chase.

An unarrned bandit threw Miss
Eleanor Page assistant treasurer of the
Children's Hospital to the sidewalk and
grabbed a $1,000 pay roll as she was
about to enter the hospital shortly be-
fore noon today.
The bandit escaped in a light road
ster manned by a confederate. $4,000
of the payroll was in cash, the re-
mainder In checks.
Miss Page, who lives at Clarendon,
Va, had just returned from the Riggs
National Bank with funds to meet
the semi-monthly payroll of the staff
and attendants.
She was accompanied in her auto
mobile by Miss Margaret Ansdale, die
tician, and when Miss Ansdale alighted
at the v street entrance, Miss
Page drove on around to the w street
entrance, near Twelfth street. parked
and locked her car and stepped onto
the sidewalk.
Hurls Her to Walk.
AS Miss Page crossed the sidewalk on
w street roadster halted in the middle
of the thoroughfare and young white
man leaped quickly out and ran up to
her. He seized the young woman from
behind. locked his arms about her
throat and threw her to the sidewalk.
Miss Page grappled with the robber,
but was unable to retain her grip on
q brown brief case in which she was
carrying the money.
Attendants in the main Offices of the
hospital heard Miss Pages screams and
dashed out, but were a moment too
late to see her assailant, who had
obtained possession of the bag, and
leaped to the running board OF the
waiting automobile, which had drawn
to a halt with its motor running only
O few feet from the scene.
The driver of the car sped of west
on w street and then turned north on
Fourteenth street. Two colored attend
ants at the hospital arrived on the
scene Just as the robbers started their
car and pursued them in second auSo-
mobile for almost a mile.
EYEWITNESS Describes Robbery.
An eyewitness to the robbery, Cyrus
L. Bruner of 2232-A Eleventh street,
said he was standing near the corner
of Eleventh and w streets when he saw
Miss Page pull up before the hospital
and alight. A moment later, he said,
the roadster containing the robbers
L. oh 81 0f Mics
Pages car, as if they had been trailing
the young woman, and one of the men
jumped out and grabbed her. Bruner,
however, was too far from the scene to
be of assistance.
The headquarters detectives who inves-
tigated were given the license number
of the fugitive automobile by Bruner
Inquiry developed the fact that the Ii
cense plates were dead, but police
sought to trace them through head
quarters.
The man who seized Miss Page was
described as being about 80 years old
and of a medium to heavy build. he
stood about feet tall and was wearing
o light gray suit and straw hat. Wit
nesses did not get good look at ms
companion, who remained inside the
roadster.
Miss Pages assailant did not utter a
word during the robbery, although the
young woman's screams were heard by
several people in the vicinity.
Robbers Observe Lights.
Pursuing the fugitive car in a second
Automobile which they borrowed from
a passerby, Varney Wilson and John
Brown, colored attendants at the hos
pital, were able to keep in sight OF the
fleeing roadster along w street to Con-
necticut avenue.
The robbers evidently were not aware
that they were being trailed and, while
thew drove at a nigh rate of speed, they
observed the traffic lights At times
the light automobile in which the col
ored men we're riding could not keep
the pace and dropped behind, other
cars heading in between the two ma
chimes.
When the lead automobile turned
around Dupont Circle and started west
on P street the two colored men found
a policeman who climbed onto the run
ming board of their automobile. The
fleeing roadster turned into Twentieth
street from P street and then whipped
into an alley near the intersection OF
M street, where the pursuers lost sight
of their quarry.
The policeman alighted and stopped
O passing fellow officer, who Joined the
search.
The automobile, abandoned, later was
found in the 1900 block of Champlain
street. A false muStache and clothing,
apparently part OF disguise, were in
the car. No one saw the car aban-
doned, so far as investigators were able
TO learn.