Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
TWO CONF ESS $4,000
PAY ROLL ROBBERY,
POLICE ANNOUNCE
Morris c. Beck and Carl B,
Davis Arrested and Third
Man Is Sought.
DETECTIVE MURPHY GETS
CREDIT OF SOLVING CRIME
Inspector Shelby Announces $500
of Stolen Money Has Been
Recovered.

Police announced today that they
have confessions from two Of the three
men who yesterday boldly abducted q
bank runner and relieved him of a
$4,000 pay roll, and that they are close
on the trail of the third robber. Some
of the money has been recovered.
Arrest of the third man is expected
in few hours.
The two men under arrest, and said
by Inspector William S. Shelby, chief of
the Detective Bureau, to have confessed
the robbery, are Morris Carlton Beck,
18, 1923 Fourteenth street, and Carl
Benjamin Davis, 20, 1914 A street north.
east.
Inspector Shelby announced that $400
of the stolen money has been recov-
cred, mostly from Davis. He said that
the name of the third man has been
supplied police by his confederates.
Shortly before 10 o'clock this morn
ing the Detective Bureau issued an
extraordinary order to captains of all
precincts giving the description and
other particulars about the third man
and calling for the strictest watch at
all strategic points about the city.
The order was issued when police
received information that the third
man was seeking to secure an auto
mobile and flee from the city. =
Meanwhile detectives had been plant
ed at points downtown, where the third
man was expected to meet engagements
this morning
Murphy Receives Credit.
Detective Dennis j. Murphy, former
headquarters detective, now attached
to the thirteenth precinct, is credited
by Inspector Shelby with uncovering Che
links in ADMINISTRATION of the robbery
which led to the arrest and alleged
confessions of the two men already
| under arrest.
The bank runner Gilbert Z. Hyatt,
| jr., IT years old, of 1918 Nineteenth
| street, was employed by the Mount ver-
| non Savings Bank, Ninth and K streets
and on his way to the Union Co.
| operative Insurance Co. Offices. He was
| accosted on M street between Four
tenth and Fifteenth streets, by three
men in a roadster. One of the men
flashed a pistol at the youth. forced
him into the machine and then the
robbers and their victim drove slowly
off, several miles along Sixteenth street,
observing all traffic signals and main
tanning steady, if slow, pace.
At Sheriff. drive into Rock Greek
Park, just opposite Walter Reed Hospi-
tai, the roadster was turned into the
park, where the robbers, finding a Sc
cluded spot, took the $4,000 pay roll
young Hyatt was carrying and then
| unceremoniously dumped him from the
machine.
Gave License Number.
The robbers, before speeding away,
gave young Hyatt number which
they said was the license number of
| their car and then told him to walk
| into the woods of the park. AS they
drove off, young Hyatt turned back into
the roadway and, after searching bit,
| found Park Policeman j. F. Connolly,
to whom he told his story.
Connolly took Hyatt to the thirteenth
,, precinct, where Detective Murphy first
took up the threads of the inveStiga-
ton, which led to the arrest of the
first suspect in the case late last night
and another arrest early this morning.
An hour after young Hyatt was taken
to the thirteenth precinct the bag in
which the runner had been carrying the
money, still holding a negotiable bond
was found in the middle of the stree
in the $500 block of Iowa avenue b.
Charles A. Brown, driver for the Ma
tional Laundry. The name of the PAM
was on. the bag and Brown immediatef
get in touch, with bank officials.
Hyatt gave police accurate descrip
tions of two of the men but was not s.
certain about the other man.
Inspector Shelby also announce
that man arrested yesterday in con
nection with the case. Edward Stanlei
Davis, Franklin street, near Thirtietf
was not participant in the robbery
and had been released. He said police
believed Davis car was the one used
by the robbers. but that Davis was not
in it at the time of the robbery.
Other Hold-up Near Solution.
At the same time Inspector Shelby
announced that police are close to 6
solution of the $1,000 payroll robbery
at the Children's Hospital on Thurs
day. He said that the two robberies
were in no way related; that three mer
are sought in the first case, all local
men, but that they are not believed to
have had a hand in the later robbery.
Inspector Shelby emphatically stated
that the robberies were planned and
executed by local gangs and not by
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