Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-13
TWO SEIZED CARS
GIVE CLUE TO YORK
MURDER MYSTERY
Third Liquor Machine and
CoIored Pair Hunted in
Agents Death.
SUSPECT .ELUDES TRAP
AS AUTO. is WATCHED
Hangouts of Man Wanted for
Questioning Are Under Police
Surveillance.

Certain that they had seized two of
their rum cars and spotted a third,
police and Federal officers early today
were hot on the trail Of two colored sus-
poets in the murder of Prohibition
Agent Lamar Watson York, shot down
early yesterday when he followed a
whisky automobile into an alley behind
First and P streets.
One fthe pair sought for question:
ing, John Logan, alias Roy Logan, Is
supposed to have eluded police trap
yesterday noon when his whisky laden
automobile was located parked on Ninth
near p street.
Officer r. G. johnson Of the Traffic
Bureau, recognizing the car as <fle
passed on his motorcycle. telephoned for
assistance and with the added detail
took up watch on the suspected auto
mobile.
Liquor Found in Car.
The driver is presumed to have taken
warning and escaped. Investigation
Of the machine, high-powered road.
ster, revealed a cargo Of 80 gallons OF
whisky.
The suspect, police believe, hoped to
away. A number of supposed hang
outs" of Logan and his alleged COM
panion, John Burroughs, said to go by
a dozen aliases, were under police sur
veillaEce last night.
All of the murdered mans fellow
officers available were detailed to the
investigation, while the police detali
was led by Lieut. Edward j. Kelly,
chief of the homicide squad.
nf avoUSfnnCgQQ
to the shooting, which occurred before
a large crowd, enabled investigators
to piece together a fairly accurate ac-
count of the tragedy, although con-
ficting versions were given by reluc-
tant men and women.
Shooting Is Reconstructed.
The story, as obtained after a score
of persons had been grilled yesterday,
was substantially as follows:
York, of duty and on the way to
sighted the suspected rum car and
followed 1t to the mouth Of the alley
without exciting the suspicion OF his
quarry.
The dry agent parked his coupe on
the main street and followed on foot
into the dark by-way. He came upon
the rum car just as the occupants
were preparing to make delivery: ana
two colored men fed down the alley.
York investigated and found liquor
in the abandoned machine, an expensive
touring car. Either wishing to sum-
mon assistance from the policeman
on the beat, or to bring out the man
who was to receive the delivery, York
stood beside the wheel and sounded
the siren continuously for 20 minutes.
The noisy demonstration collected a
sizeable crowd, and York, seeing an
elderly colored man whom he happened
to know, stepped short distance from
the machine to question him relative to
the identity Of the fugitives.
Fugitive Fires One Shot.
At this juncture, several witnesses
agreed, one of the fugitives returned
down the alley, keeping in the shadows.
He emerged suddenly from against the
alley wall. firing point blank at York,
who fell on his back before he had OPP
portunity to reach for his gun.
At about 1890 o'clock some one tele-
phoned police at No. precinct and
Sergt. j. L. Norris and Pvt. w. w.
Whitemore were sent to the scene.
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