Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-25
PROBE OF SHOOTING
in TEA HOUSE GETS
NEW Clue IN AUTO
Bullet RiddIed Car Is Found
Abandoned Near Bowie.
Owner Is Sought.
WITNESS AND VICTIM
WANTED IN MURDERS
Pennsylvania Officials Identify Pair
as Fugitives-Third Man Held
in Philadelphia.

A bullet-riddled automobile, discov-
cred by farmer on a road leading
into Bowie, today gave police what they
believe the best clue discovered to date
in the effort to track down the BAN
ats who held up the Old Colonial Tea
House early Monday morning. killing
one man and injuring six others.
The abandoned car, q heavy coach.
bore Maryland tags issued to a Bal
tlmore man. The car had not been
reported stolen. Baltimore detectives
were looking for the owner this morn
ing.
The machine was turned over to
Constable Jack Wilson and was re-
moved to garage near Hyattsville.
New Man Held in Probe.
Baltimore detectives also announced
today they were searching for two men
In that city who are said to be friends
OF Thomas Simone Of Washington. one
OF the persons wounded in the shoot
ing.
A man said to have accompanied
Grover Amick, who was killed In the
gun play, was arrested early today and
lodged In the HyattSville jail with other
persons who witnessed the shooting
The new prisoner, George Osborne,
81, of the 100 block of Madison street
northeast, is to be questioned today, ale
though police expressed. the belief he
left the scene before the shooting
started.
Witnesses Wanted In Sayings.
One Of the men who has been held
at Hyattsville since the shooting under
the name of John Marsh, 100 block
of G street, was identified last night
by Pennsylvania State troopers as
William Hancock, who, they say, il
wanted for killing man at Shamokin,
Pa. Sheriff w. Curtis Hopkins re-
moved Hancock to the Marlboro Jail.
The Pennsylvania officers also identi-
ned John j. Bartlett, 14O0 block Of
Twelfth street, as being wanted for
murder at Sunbury, Pa. Bartlett was
one Of five persons injured during the
gunplay. He is under police guard at
Casualty Hospital.
Three men are being held in Phil
adelphia in connection with the case,
two having been arrested shortly after
the shooting as q result of q telephone
call to the tea house, and the third
having been taken after street battle
yesterday afternoon in front of the
premises where the first two were
nabbed.
Third Philadelphia Held.
The man taken yesterday, John Lee
Greca, 20, said to be police informer.
was held in $4,000 bail for the Mary
land authorities. The other two Phila-
delphia suspects, Vicero Ranzulli and
Nicholas Tronco, have been charged
with being accessories to the murder Of
Amick.
Lieut.. Cornelius Roche and Sergt. VII
liam Feehley of the Baltimore Detec-
tive Bureau, who were assigned to the
case at the request Of States Attorney
Alan Bowie, spent yesterday question
ing the prisoners and the injured.
Working on the theory that the brutal
shooting may have been the work Of q
vice ring that trafflcs in pretty girls, the
detectives yesterday showed the prison.
ers pictures of men known to be asso-
ciated with the ring. None were iden-
titled as members of the hold-up party,
however.
The detectives also took formal state
ments from the prisoners yesterday.
Amick Buried in Virginia.
Besides Bartlett, the others injured
were Charles Levitt, alleged proprietor
of the tea house; Mrs. Verne Edwards.
Norman CAREY and Simone. Levitt
and CAREY were the most seriously In
jured, but all were reported as resting
comfortably" at Casualty Hospital thiS
morning.
Funeral services for Grover J. Amick.
81, who was killed as the bandits
emptied four revolverS and q sawed-off
shotgun after lining the patrons of the
tea house against the kitchen wall.
were held in Winchester, Va, his for
mer home, yesterday.
Rev. E. T. Clark, pastor Of the First
Baptist Church, ofiiciated at services
in the home of Amick's father. Burial
was in Mount Hebron Cemetery.
Members of the Sarah Zane Fire
Company, which Amick Joined when
a boy, attended the rites. Amick was
educated at the John Kerr High School
at Winchester. He Is survived by his
father and three sisters, Mrs. w. J.
Jones Of Milford, Conn; Mrs. william
Aiken of New Haven, Conn, and Miss
Margaret Amick Of Winchester, Va.
Taxi Drivers Released.
in Washington, young Amick made his
home at the residence Of the parents
Of Miss Anna Leckliter, HOO block of
Monroe street.
According to police he drove to the
Bladensburg resort with Miss Leck-
liter and Osborne, and the two men
entered the house, leaving the girl in
the car. She saw the bandits enter
and disable the distributors Of the
machines parked in the yard.
The prisoners now held at Hyatts-
vile as State witnesses are Dorothy
Jordan, Mae Dix, Helen Conley, Marie
Wilson and Jean Gordon of Baltimore.
and Samuel Kushner, Raymond Sisler
and Arthur Crockett of Washington.
Three taxi drivers, one of them
slightly hurt when struck by q bullet,
were questioned yesterday and later
released. They told Of taking patrons
to the tea house shortly before the
shooting occurred. The drivers were
Carl Prinkert, 26, the injured man;
his brother, Fred @. Prinkert, and