Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-16
Police Say Stumm Admitted
Part in Alleged Plan to
Seize $4,000.
SON-0F-LAW OF'LATE
LEGISLATOR ALSO HELD
Investigators Posed as Accomplices
to Get Evidence of Discussing
Office Conspiracy.

Breaking down under a barrage of
questions by headquarters detectives,
Philip K. Stumm. 20 years old, of SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, is said by police to have
signed a confession this afternoon adj
mitting his part in an alleged plot to
stage machine gun hold-up of the
$4,000 District government pay roll
on Decoration day.
Police claimed the plot was revealed
last night, following the arrest by them
of Stumm and Arthur Allen Fisher,
24-year-old clerk in the District audi
tors Office, who was the Son-in-law of
the late Representative Florian Lampert
of Wisconsin, in a Fourteenth street
hotel room.
Fisher, who is estranged from his
wife and three children, was to be
questioned by detectives at police head
quarters today. So far police have
made no effort to obtain a confession
of the hold-up plot from him.
Fisher. Stumm, Leo A. de Ward, a
Post Office inspector, and Jack Trainor,
described by police as a volunteer in
vestigator," were discussing the plot,
police say. when the hotel room was
raided. Police say de Ward and
Trainor had been working on the case
for about a week. In Stumms con-
fession he refers to de Ward as
Johnny Mack, the Brooklyn machine
gunner" and to Trainor as Jack"
Stumm made the detailed confess
sion, according to detectives, within
fou Iaa faiy IN
police headquarters and grilled by In
spector William S. Shelby and De Ward.
Made to Inspector Shelby.
Stumm's confession was made to
Inspector Shelby in the presence of
Lieut.. c. j. P. Weber and Detective
Sergt. Howard Ogle. 1t is in part as
follows:
II had been in town about week
before / met Fisher In our
conversation I told Fisher / had been
around the country working in oil fields
and other places. He said he would
also like to see the country and that
any time he wanted to, he knew where
he could get about 100000.
There was nothing more said until
Fisher was waiting for the bus, and
Fisher mentioned that when the right
man came along he was going to get
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told me that wien / got job and
stayed around in Washington we could
go out together some time. He gave
me his card and told me to call him
up. I said All right and he then got
on the bus and left
About a week after I met Fisher 1
met Jack on Ninth street near Thomp-
sons lunch room. I told about meeting
Fisher and having his card and told
him about my conversation with Fisher
about the 100000. Jack said that
we'd both go and see Fisher and find
out what it is all about So we both
went to Fishers apartment on New
Hampshire avenue and I introduced
Jack to Fisher, telling him he was a
friend Of mine.
Fisher told us that the money was
in the District Building and that he
had been figuring on it for about two
years, and said it was nothing to get
and that it could be gotten easy. We
were over there about 20 minutes and
then left. Three or four days later We
went back to Fishers apartment He
drew a plan of the auditors Office OF
the District Building and then tore it
up and told us that the best time to
do it was when a month ended on a
Monday, because the pay roll was then
made up on Saturday; because on Sat-
urday the money would be in the safe
and some on the table, the safe not
being locked until about O'Clock.
Fisher asked us if we could get the
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