Evening star., 1931-06-20
THlRDOF SUSPECTS
BROUGHT HERE FOR.
QU|zz|NG IN DEATH
Jack Ross, 22, Questioned in
Connection With Jaynes
Staying.
lNvoL WE'D By. TWO. OTHERS
As ONE OF .HATLEss TRIO
Pair Taken After Auto Accident
Have Already Confessed Five
Hold-upS Here.

Jack Ross, 20 years old, who Is said
to have admitted being . member Of
the "hatlesS trio" Of bandits, was
brought to Washington from Richmond
today for questioning in connection with
the staying of Mrs. Elizabeth Jaynes.
With the two other members Of the
"I1atless trio, already in custody here,
Ross was taken to police headquarters.
where he was quiz1ed anent both the
Jaynes killing and q series of fiye hold
ups said to have been confessed by the
two other men,
Ross, according to Detective 6ergts.
Robert J. Barrett and Dennis j..
Murphy, shortly after his capture yes
terday: admitted, participation in the
robbery series.
He was apprehended in Deep Bottom,
Va, about 10 miles south OF Richmond.
Accompanied by two uniformed police
men and plainclothes man Of the
searched the woods and swamps along
the James River.
IL Shown Photographs.
They finally came upon Ross and six
other men-four white and two colored
-sprawled in q small clearing. AL
though rife was lying nearby. Ross
surrendered without offering any re-
sistance, Barrett and Murphy said.
Where's your warrant?" Ross asked.
The detectives. reply, they said, was
to show Ross photographs Of the pair
already being held here.
On house boat on which Ross had
been staying for the last week Barrett
and Murphy found .25-caliber revolt
yer, they said.
1t was the discovery Of the pistol,
coupled with the fact Ross answers the
description OF one of the bandits who
participated In the hold-up Of the Gar
den T Shoppe, in which Mrs. Jaynes
was shot, which caused the detectives
to link him with the staying Of the
57-year-old cashier. The gunman who
killed Mrs. Jaynes, Barrett and Murphy
recalled, used .25-caliber gun.
One Partially Identified.
Police also are endeavoring to con-
meet Ross and the other alleged MEM
bers of the "hatIess trio" with the re-
cent $500 Peoples Drug Stores pay
roll robbery.
one of the trio-Nicholas Vasilion,
~, Of Newark. N. J.-was partially
identified last night as one OF the ban
dts who held up two employees OF the
drug company last April L. according
to police.
Ross will be scrutinized by sew
eral persons who saw the robbers lott
ering in the vicinity Of the concerns
warehouse, near First and Decatur
streets northeast, q short time before
the, hold-up, police said. Vasilion and
the other member Of the trio-Peter
SaIa, %, also Of Newark-likewtSe viii
be subjected to an examination by the
robbery witnesses, police added.
Named as AccOmplice.
In confessing the series Of hold-ups,
VaSilion and Sala named Ross as their
accomplice, according to police.
Car Found 10 BE Stolen.
The revolver found in Ross possess
sion will be turned over to Lieut. John
H. Fowler, Police Department ballisticS
expert, for examination.
Vasilion and Sala were arrested by
Alexandria police Thursday after the
automobile in which they were return
ing to washington from Richmond
overturned on Hunting Greek road.
The car, police reported, had been stolen
two days before from Chevy Chase,
Nd, man.
According to police, the pair hed to,
the Virginia city after holding up q
delicatessen In the 1000 block Of Bla-
densburg road northeast q short time
after stealing the machine.