Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-28
Walks Into Arms of Waiting
officer as He Leaves Scene
of Safe Cracking.
$67.75IN CURRENCY FOUND
IN PRISONERS BRIEF CASE
Tells Police It Was His First
0ffense as He Is Held for
Investigation.

Unaware that the sound of his ham
mer had betrayed him, a young cracks
man laboriously pounded open two
strong boxes in the Muth paint store, at
ITO Thirteenth street, last midnight.
stuffed such currency as he could get at
into a brief case and stepped from the
front door into the arms of waiting
policeman.
Sergt. w. J. Cunningham Of the Traf-
nc Bureau. summoned by night watch
man. heard muffied echoes from within
the store and crept up fire escape to
the roof OF the three-story building.
Peering through a skylight Cunningham
was trying to locate the intruder when
the hammering ceased
The officer made quick guess tnaJ
his man would attempt to leave by a
front door and fastened to the street.
Although there were several other exits.
including the sSylight through which
the craftsman entered, Cunningham
guess proved correct. and he captured
the man without resistance.
Son of Mime. COYel.
The prisoner identified himself as
George Leov CoVel l9-year-old son OF
Nine. Colo CoVeI Of % Third street
northeast. Nine. CoVel her business
cards say. is the originator and pro-
motor of the Stelor Clubs.
Covers brief case, according to Cum
ningham. contained a coil of rope and
SGT. rs IN currency, some S26 OF when
the youth is said to have admitted TAX
ing from the Office safes on the sec
- 10 u4r nffCjQ1c
company could not say how much
money was taken pending check-up.
CoVel. who said he operated sign
painting shop in the basement at BIZ
Twelfth street, was being Questioned
todav in connection with similar fob-
ferv a week ago Of a downtown paint
store. Police quote him as saying, how
ever, that last nights was his hrst Joo.
Fingerprints Match.
Compared at headquarters this morn
ing CoVels fingerpTints were said 70
have matched those left by man who
broke into two paint stores on Tenth
street on the night of August 8. AT
t,oth stores Sergt Fred Sandberg, the
departments Identification expert. oo-
tanned impressions from window glass
broken when the robber forced the rear
doors Of the stores.
SnaH amounts UA RnRAAs W.
10 have been stolen from the STOCK OF
the walter Morgan Co. at AL Tenth
street and the George E. Corbett co. az
400 Tenth street Check-ups. however
failed TO show how much OF the STOCK
was missing.
some SIS in bills and change was
found in the hallway Of the Thirteenth
street store building, evidently dropped
bv the intruder in his haste to escape.
visited Store Previously.
Cunningham said the prisoner ted
him he visited the store during business
hours to plan the robbery, then puf-
chased a carpenters hammer at
local and 10 cent store and returned
at midnight. r..,.
THE intruder succeeded in beating
the combinations of two large strong
F,oxes The doors Of the larger, now
ever. refused to yield more than Few
inches and the craftsman was unable
Ia get all the money sacks through the
narrow aperture.
store officials explained that re-
CENTS are banked daily and only nomi-
mai sums left overnight in the once
Cunningham recovered the hammer
from the roof, where his prisoner salo
he threw il after completing the Joo
Covei was booked at the Trafnc Bureau
for Investigation pending eheck-up
Of his previous activities.
w II Miller. Waterman guarding
neighboring buildings, heard the ham
mer blows and summoned Cunningham,
who was on patrol duty downtown.