Evening star., 1931-12-12
Chase Nets Suspect in S138
Gas Station Robbery.
Two Others Seized.
FOURTH ATTEMPT FAILS
AS GUNMAN Is ROUTED
Cab Commanded ed and Bullets
Fired in Pursuit Past White
House Into Park.

An automobile salesman is in Emer-
gency Hospital with bullet wound in
his shoulder, three alleged bandits are
under arrest, and three others are sought
by police following a two-and- half
hour crime wave in which three
hold-ups and an attempted robbery of
the same type were staged last night
Inc salesman, John RenfreW, 40, Of
723 Jefferson Street, was shot when he
attempted to capture a gunman who
had fled with about S138 after holding
up a gasoline station at Seventeenth
and M streets, conducted by his en-
ployerS, Emerson q Orme.
william Ernest Caddes, %, was cap
tured snort time later after a taxicab
chase, in which a policeman fired four
shots at him. The chase, which led
down Seventeenth street, past the White
House and through Potomac Park. end
ed when the second cab which the BAN
dit had commandesrnd was wrecked op-
posite the Bureau rot Engraving.
Salesman Porsues Bandit.
Wilfred Miller. rs, of Hollywood. Md,
was alone in the filing station when
the bandit entered Covering the youth
with .32-caliber revolver, the stranger
demanded money Miller opened the
cash register and handed the gunman
about S98 in cash and checks for a
total Of approximately $40. Pocketinp
his loot, the robber fed
Miller'S shouts attracted RenfreW,
who was standing inside the company's
salesroom, adjoining the station Told
what had happened, the salesman
started after the disappearing gunman
RenfreW overlook Caddes at Con-
necticut avenue and M street, where
the latter was about to enter a taxi.
When the bandit saw RenfreW an
proachlng he fired through his coat, the
bullet piercing the SaleSmans left
shoulder. The ban0it then forced the
taxi driver to start his cab.
AS Renfrew started to walk back to
the station he met Policeman j. E.
Phelps, third precinct, who also had
started in pursuit o. the bandit. The
officer took the wounded man to the
station, where Representative Edith N.
Rogers chauffeur was preparing to
leave. Phelps placed Renfrew in the
car and the chauffeur drove the
wounded man to the hospital. Phy-
sicians said his condition was not
serious.
Meanwhile, the fugitive had changed
cabs, ordering the driver to speed past
traffic lights and stop signs to Seven
teenth street and Pennsylvania avenue,
The driver Of the first taxi, however
picked up Policeman j. L. Hall, Traffic
Bureau, at Seventeenth street and the
Avenue, and followed the other cab
with Hall standing on the running
board, firing at the tires.
A machine operated by John Hauber
OF the Fidelity Investment Association
got in the path of the gunman's taxi
at the edge of TWinilg Lake, and forced
1t from the road, causing it to crash
into tree.
Hall ran to the wrecked cab and
ordered the fugitive to surrender,
Dropping his revolver on the floor of
the taxi, Caddes raised his hands and
stepped out
After being booked at the fourth
precinct station, Caddes was taken to
headquarters, where he is said tn have
confessed the hold-up and shooting.
He Is reported to have told Inspector
FRANK S. w. Burke he is the father of
a 3-year-old girl and his wife Is
critically i'll in Canton, Ohio, hospital
out OF work for SIX months. he said. hn
came to Washington Thursday night ia
seek employment.
Caddes police reported, is wanted m
robbery charges in several Ohio towns
ABOUT an hour before this ho!d-up a
colored man entered the tire den9rt~
ment OF the Sears, Roebuck & ca store
| on BIadensburg road northeast. drew q
gun on James w. Copeland, a salesman
and orded him to open the cash register
Copeland refused
Whlle he and the bandit were arp1,-
ing customer, Charles P. Smith l84o
Callfornla street, entered. Smith Gran
p!ed with the robber and attemnted fo
Qlsarm MIN. The gunman broke awav
however. and fled. way
At about the time OF Caddes, oo0
ture, three colored men hailed Hon,or
A. Bohannon 205 Pierce street C1ar-
endon, who was cruising in his cob
near colorado avenue and Sherman n
avenue. He drove the men to Nichols
avenue and Livingston road southeast
Where they robbed him of IS at the
taxi oi1 III MS
Two eleventh precinct police auto-
moplies, summoned by Bohannon nicked
up the trail of the robbers. who Were
captured at HighvieW and Maple nIacas
one OF the three leaped from the cab
and escaped. van VIC Cav
Ihe two arrested are Alphonso 7
Branch, l0, of 2004 Ninth street and
theodore Harris, IT, of 8Il Florida ave
nue.. The gun used in the hoId-un was
| ported p0-4O0
About an hour later Samuel Preston
color"d. 2252 Ontario road. was held m
IN his rear yard and robbed of $35 and
a silver watch chain.