Evening star., 1931-12-04
States Attorney Bowie to
Ask That Three Be Held
for Grand Body.
WARRANT FOR ABBOTT
WILL BE SWORN TODAY
Man Held by Philadelphia Police
Is Identified by Witnesses as
One With Pistol.

Evidence against three men charged
with first-degree murder in connection
with the holdup and shooting last week
at the Old Colonial Tea House will be
presented to a coroner's jury tonight
at the Bladensburg, Md, fire house.
e States Attorney Alan Bowie of Prince
Georges County will ask the jury to hold
the three men-Peter Abbott, alleged
trigger man" in the Staying of Grover
Amick, 27-year-old Washington filling
station employe; Charles Levitt, man
ager of the tea house, and Norman
Carey, his assistant-for action of the
grand jury.
A warrant for Abbott who is being
held by Philadelphia authorities, was to
be sworn out today by jeremiah Crow
ley, chief of police of Prince Georges
County. Warrants against Levitt and
Carey, who were committed to Dis
trict jail here last night, we're issued
yesterday by Assistant United States
Attorney Milford F. Schwartz.
Identified by Picture.
Crowley wired Chief of Detectives
Michael Hanley at Philadelphia this
morning that the warrant for Abbott
would be forwarded there by special
delivery mail, according to dispatches
from the Pennsylvania city Crowley
said Abbott had been identified from
photographs by witnesses to the shoot
ing as the first man to enter the tea
house early in the morning of Noyem-
Der % and brandish a revolver. He
advised Hanley eXtradition proceedings
would be begun Immediately for the
return Of Abbott to Prince Georges
County.
Meanwhile the four women picked
up here yesterday by Justice Depart
ment agents in connection with the in
vestigation of white slave activities
throughout the East were taken to
Baltimore and remanded to Jail there
after questioning by United States At
torney Simon E. Sobeloff. They are
being held as material witnesses against
four men charged with violation Of the
Mann act-William Hancock, John j.
MAN O. War Bartlett, Chester Clarke
alias Renzulli, and Levitt, tea house
manager.
Women Ordered Held.
The women, Miss Jean Gordon, Miss
Mae Dix, Miss Susan Reynolds and Miss
Margie Kushner, all of whom were free
on bond as States witnesses to the
shooting, were ordered held as Federal
witnesses IN default of $4,000 bond each
by District Attorney Sobeloff.
Two OF the five wounded in the tea
house shooting were transferred last
night from Casualty to Gallinger Hos
pital, while the remaining three, Levitt,
Carey and Mrs. Verne Edwards, were
sent to jail. Those at Gallinger are
Thomas Simone and Bartlett, alias
Felix Bocchicchio, the former said to
be one of the hold-up men and the
latter a guard at the tea house
Simones wife and mother visited
him yesterday at the hospital and upon
leaving, insisted:
Hes just big, playful boy"
The two women came here from
Philadelphia by bus and stopped off at
Hyattsvtlle to receive permission from
Crowley to visit Simoae.
Two Are Requestioned
Two Of the witnesses in the case,
Miss Anna Lechlider and Samuel Kush-
ner. were requestioned yesterday, but
gave no further information of i'm
portance.
A phone call to the tea house from
q nearby home was traced yesterday.
1t came from the home of Mrs. Louise
Talbot, who lives only few hundred
feet away. Mrs. Talbot said she was
awakened early Monday morning by a
barrage of shots, and shortly afterWard
heard a woman screaming at her back
door: Let me in-for Gods sake let
me in"
The girl stumbled into the kitchen,
rasping, according to Mrs. Talbot,
We've been held up, on the hill" The
girl, who police said fits the description
af Relep Conley, one Of the occupants
al the house, asked permission to use
she telephone, according to Mrs Tall
bot. She then called a number, which
AIRS. Talbot did not hear, asked #
would be right back up"