Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-09
STORE IS HELD UP,
FIFTY CENTS TAKEN
Cab Drivers Robbed of $50.
Women Are Victims of
Purse-Snatchers.

A colored man today held up Jacob
and q streets southwest and took the
entire contents Of the cash register
flfty-cent piece.
Token was tidying up his store for
the monday trade when the man en-
tered and held q pistol under the
grocer'S nose, accompanying the move
ment with the usual curt order The
grocer complied and the bandit grabbed
the half dollar with an oath and fed
toward Tenth street on foot.
Customer Informs Police.
F. A. Emerson, 214 c street, walked
into the store during the robbery, but
beat a hasty retreat when the bandit
flouriShed his pistol. Emerson report
ed the hold-up to No. precinct.
A different turn was taken In o
similar case last night, however, when
an attempt to stage q hold-up typical
of the dime movie thrillers landed
Robert Mcfarland. 19-year-old colored
youth, in cell at the second precinct
station, his intended victim wheeling
and telling him with blow to the
chin.
Peter ]. Hogan, 81, of 1108 M street,
was walking along Twelfth street at K
when Mcfarland came up behind him
and pressed something against his
back
stick 'em up and give me your
money" the boy barked.
Hogan peered over his shoulder and
saw the colored youth, his finger jam
med into Hogan's back and awaiting
for the man to obey his command.
H0ld-Up Is Frustrated.
Hogan wheeled quickly, struck the
colored boy a terrific blow on the chin
and then leaped atop him when he
fell. Charles FTiedenberg Of 4701
Kansas avenue and Nathan Luber of
SIS Irving street helped Hogan to hold
the boy until police arrived
Patrolmen Frank Bonelawsky and r.
E. Williams of No. 2 station arrested
the boy, and were still holding him for
investigation today. Mcfarland gave
his address as 626 o street.
Meanwhile armed bandits active in
this line lately robbed trio Of Wash
ington taxicab drivers of $50 last night,
according to reports to police.
A lonely point on Sheriff road north
east furnished the scene where two COL
ored gunner relieved James Charles
Rollins, 20 years old, of 1900 E street
southeast, Of $18 In bills after hailinc
his cab at John Marshall place and c
street.
Taxi Drivers Robbed.
Jack Hunt of 1921 Isherwood street
northeast was held up in Sullivans
court southwest by a pair of colored
men answering the description of those
who robed Rollins, and So was taken
from him. The men entered Hunts taxi
at Twelfth and c streets.
Ten dollars was taken from David
Novoselsky, 304 B street southeast, by
a young white man who hired his cab
at Fourteenth street and New York
avenue and instructed him to drive to
Georgetown, where he pulled a pistol,
prodded 1t in NovoSelsky's ribs and
made him drive to point near the
Naval Radio Station towers at Airing
ton, Va.
There the bandit took the hackers
money, leaped from the machine and
ordered the driver to beat it."
An unidentified pedestrian appeared
IN front OF 2419 Pennsylvania avenue
last night about 1880 o'clock just in
time to Illustrate the attempt of an
unidentified pocketbook snatcher to rob
Mrs. Gree Curtin Of 1880 Twenty-fifth
street.
Mrs. Curtin was walking on the north
sidewalk Of the thoroughfare when a
young colored man, wearing a gray suit
and gray cap, but no overcoat, grabbed
her in an effort to rob her.
Purse Snatchers Busy.
Just as he grabbed her. police later
learned, the white pedestrian appeared
and went in pursuit of the fleeing COL
'ored man, losing sight of him when he
turned from Pennsylvania avenue and
ran north on Twenty-fourth street.
Louise Middleton, colored, Of 800 q
street southwest, also selected as a VIC
tim Of q purse snatcher, was no so
fortunate. losing her pocketbook con-
tanning 5000. She was walking on q
near Sixth street southwest about 1:15
o'clock, she reported, when her pocket
book containing the cash was taken
from q handbag she held under her
arm.
The man who robbed her answered
the same general description Of the at
tacker Of Mrs. Curtin.
Breaking q pane Of glass in base
ment window, an unidentified colored
man about o'clock this morning
gained entrance to the home Of Armen
Nazarian, i757 Church street. The
noise aroused sleeping members Of the
family, who frightened him away.
TurkAv Dinner at Church.