Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
ALLEGED ROBBER
SHOT AS CLIMAX
TO HOLD-UP WAVE
coIored Victim Attempted to
Rob Him, Grocer Tells
Police.
ST0RE OWNER is HELD
PENDING INVESTIGATION
Three Taxi Drivers Report Stick
Ups-Salesman Eludes Bandit
Trio-Woman Routs Thug.

An alleged hold-up mar was shot and
seriously wounded by his intended vic
tim last night as a climax to a series
of robberies, which had kept police busy
throughout the evening.
Three taxicab drivers reported they
! had lost their money at the point of
pistols, a tobacco salesman carrying
$500 of his company's funds eluded
three would-be bandits after a 4-mile
automobile chase, and a woman fright
ened of robber by screaming
Grocer Shoots Man.
The man shot was William Dunlop.
colored, 30, of the 1900 block of Third
street. Abe Rosenblatt, 20, a grocer,
/; told police he was forced to defend him.
self after Dunlop had attempted to rob
him in his grocery store, 800 p street, at
10 O'Clock last night.
Dunlop was taken to Emergency
Hospital with a bullet wound in the
back
When the colored man entered the
store he asked for some potatoes, the
grocer said. AS Rosenblatt bent over
to get the potatoes, the other man, he
said, pressed knife in his back, and
told him to stick 'em up" Rosenblatt
who was armed as a result of an at
tempt of five men to steal merchan-
disc from his store Friday night, whirled
and fired at Dunlop. The bullet struck
him m the back, but Dunlop ran a
block to Bates street before collapsing.
He was found there by headquarters
! detectives. Rosenblatt was held pend
ing investigation.
Woman Screams for Help.
Half an hour later and only a block
away from the shooting, Mrs. Nellie
Gamerman, 442 o street, told police she
was walking near her home when a
colored man held her up with a re-
volver wrapped in handkerchief. she
told police that when she screamed the
man fed.
Chased for more than miles by
three men who attempted several times
to force his machine from the road,
Louis Weaver, a tobacco salesman,
finally escaped his pursuers at Twenty
first street and Pennsylvania avenue.
Weaver. who lives at 4l23 Hayes
street northeast. said the chase began
drove up and ordered him to stop his
automobile Weaver said when he re-
fused the other oar was driven straight
at his machine. He said he managed
to avoid it and sped for the city limits.
At Twenty-first street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue, he said, he lost sight OF
his purSuers.
Leaves 5000 With Police.
He deposited the $500 at the irst
precinct station house for safe keeping.
taxi driver. William j. Balbree, %,
CT 1920 Park road, was held up at pis-
tol point, stripped of his clothes, and
robbed Of So and his taxicab by three
colored bandits at Fifty-third and East
Capitol Streets last night police were
told. BaIbree was forced to walk to
gasoline station four blocks away, where
he obtained raincoat and pair OF
trousers
Balbree said he picked up the three
men at North Capitol and S streets.
He was told to proceed to Fifty-third
and East Capitol streets. Arriving
there. he was confronted with a pistol
and ordered to give up his money and
clothes.
The taxicab later was recovered by
police at Fifty-third and Grant streets.
Two white men held up James Ed
ward Tilman. colored. "a, taxicab driver
for the Central Cab Co., after having
him drive them along Cathedral avenue
and under the Calvert Street Bridge.
Tilman told police of the fourteenth
precinct.
The pair escaped after taking about
So in bills, he told police.
Martin C. White, 81 of 2319 Pennsyl-
yania avenue, was the third cab driver
robbed. He said $3.50 was taken from
him by two white men who held gun
in his back while they made him follow
their directions. The robbery occurred
in Balls court.