Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-10
Mrs. Hayes Refuses to Re-
veal Identity of Third Man
Who Entered Bank.
VALUABLE INFORMATION
DISCLOSED BY GRILLING
Police Find Hayes Escaped From
Prison in 1918 While Serving
Term for Robbery.

The identity of one of the two gun
men who escaped yesterday after their
leader had been killed In an attempted
holdup of the First National Bank at
Upper Marlboro, Nd. is known to
Washington police, according to Sheriff
w. Curtis Hopkins of Prince Georges
County.
The bandits name was revealed to
police today, when Mrs. Hayes, breaking
down after several hours questioning,
admitted she knows both of the robbers
who aided her husband in the attempted
robbery which cost him his life.
Third Is Her Relative.
The woman refused to disclose the
identity of the third member Of the
bandit trio, however. explaining he
was related to her, Sheriff Hopkins
declared.
Inspector william S. Shelby, chief
of Capital detectives. admitted con-
siderable valuable information had
been obtained from Mrs. Hayes, but
declined to reveal its nature. He adj
mitted. however. that Mrs. Hayes will
be questioned again In the hope addi-
tional clues may be obtained from her.
The Ohio license plates attached to
the automobile used by the robbers and
abandoned in a ditch on q narrow
country road near Browns Station,
Md, were issued to T. H Clark Of
Toledo. police said. There is no evil
dence the tags were stolen, they added.
Escaped From Prison.
A check-up Of the criminal record Of
Mrs. Hayes husband, Joseph Hayes,
alias Tracy H. Cartwright. revealed he
escaped from the penitentiary at Walla
Walla, Wash, on November 90, 1918,
after serving four years of a to 20
year sentence for robbery.
He returned to the institution the
following month, however, and was
paroled less than a year later. He
violated his parole on october 81. 1880,
by leaving the State and was wanted by
prison officials at the time of his death.
Some of Hayes other aliases, accord
ing to the Department of Justice, where
his record was found by checking his
fingerprints, were Thomas Slattery and
John H. Thompson. The fngerprints
were obtained by William r. Enyeart of
the Bureau OF Identification at police
headquarters.
Announcement that Mrs. Hayes had
revealed the identity Of one Of the gun
men and disclosure Of her husbands
criminal record came while Washington
police, with q photograph as their prin-
opal clue, were seeking a girl believed
to have aided the bandits in making
their escape.
At the same time Sheriff w. Curtis
Hopkins was investigating a letter
which the young woman is thought TO
have written to the slain bandit, Jo-
seph Hayes, so years old, of Chicago.
The girl, described as a faShionably
dressed young woman with red hair, Is
said to have been seen sitting in the
robbers automobile, parked across the
street from the bank, shortly before
the attempted robbery.
Hunt in Woods Called OF.
Believing apprehension Of the girl
the most effective means of bringing
about the ultimate capture of the gun
men, Hopkins recalled his posses and
abandoned the search Of the woods in
which the fugitives were believed 70
have sought refuge.
Several unofficial posses. organized
by residents Of Prince Georges County,
continued searching the wooded section
in which the bandits were last seen,
however, and nearby roads also were
being watched.
The young woman entered the probe
after employees of two of the three banks
in Upper Marlboro told Hopkins she
had visited the institutions shortly be-
fore the attempted hold-up.
She went to the First National first,
it was said. but later called at the oftlce
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