Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-11
HUNT FOR BANDITS
GIVEN IMPETUS IN.
TIP FROM CHICAGO
Anonymous lnformer Gives
Information Purporting to
Identity Fugitives. =
SHERIFF IS SURE PAIR !
LEFT PRINCE GEORGES
Farmers Who Helped Pull Car
From Ditch Believe They Would
Recognize Them.

The search for two companions of a
gunman shot in an attempted hold-up
Of the First National Bank of Upper
Marlboro received fresh impetus today
/ in anonymous information from Chicago
purporting to identify the fugitives.
An informer who signed himself
"A Friend" named the two companions
Of the dead man, known here to be
Joseph Hayes, and declared that all
three had cri ninal records in Chicago.
One Of the names given in the tels-
gram Is the same name police yestsr-
day said Mrs. Hayes, wife of the slain
bandit, had given as one OF her hus-
bands companions.
The information was telegraphed to
Claude H. owen, assistant cashier of
| the bank, who turned 1t over to Prince
Georges County police. owen shot
the robber during the hold-up attempt.
Information to BE Checked.
Prince Georges authorities would not
reveal the names mentioned in the
telegram. They will check on the in
formation with the assistance of the
Burns Detective Agency. acting as
| agent for the American Bankers As
ISOLATION.
Sheriff w. Curtis Hopkins admitted
today that, aside from the new clue,
which may or may not prove valuable.
the search Is almost at standstill.
I'm sure the bandits succeeded in
| getting out OF the county, either on
loot or in an automobile obtained after
their own car was ditched," Sheriff
Hopkins declared.
"Of course, I've asked authorities in
| other parts OF the State-as well as in
| several nearby States-to be on the
lookout for them, and I'm confident
they'll be captured sooner or later, but
there's nothing much We can do here
in the county"
The day before the attempted rob-
! berry, which occurred Thursday after
noon, the robbers machine was ditched
just few feet from the place where
they abandoned 1t after fleeing from
! the bank, Sheriff Hopkins said.
Saw Gunman nj Close Range.
One Of the gunner walked TO Browns
Station, nearly . mile away, and in
| duced two farmers to pull the autoEno-
bile from the ditch with their truck.
| On the way back to the ditched car
the bandit sat between the two farmers.
who had ample opportunity to scru-
| tinize him. The men are confident they
can identify the robber and they be-
| lieve they would recognize his COM
panion. They already have identified
! the slain gunman, Joseph Hayes. whose
body is being held at q Richie under
! taking parlor.
Washington police have abandoned
! interest in the case unless the BAN
dts should appear in the District. 1t ~
believed, however, that the robbers have
| made their way to Baltimore, as map
| found in Hayes pocket showed a care
| fully traced route from the southwest
ern section of the Monumental City to
Towson. a northern suburb.
Capital police decided to drop the
| case after 1t was concluded the gunner
| could not have had any connection with
the series of hold-ups and shootings
which have occurred here recently.
Effort to Link Hold ups Fails.
An effort was made to link the BAN,
dts with the robbery OF the Garden T
Shoppe, in which Mrs. Elizabeth S.
Jaynes, 57-year-old cashier was fa-
tally wounded; the attempted hold-up
OF Congress Heights street car, in
which James H. Lane. 42-year-old con-
ductor- motorman. met a similar fate
and the $500 Peoples Drug Store pay
roll robbery. No evidence could be found
that the robbers had anything to do
with these affairs. however
Hayes wife, Mrs. Mary Anne HAYES,
who is about 80 years old, has revealed
the identity of one of the fugitives. ac-
cording to Sheriff. Hopkins She re-
fused to disclose the name OF the other
robber, however, explaining he was re-
lated to her, Sheriff Hopkins said
The most important clues in the pos
session OF the investigators are a pho
tograph of a girl believed to have aided
the gunner in making their escape and
q fIaOVN - -. *
HAYES by the young woman.
The girl, described as a fashionably
dressed young woman with red hair,
visited the three Upper Marlboro banks
shortly before the attempted robbery.
presumably to study the loyout OF the
institutions. She also was seen sitting
In the robbers car, which was parked
across the street from the First Ma
tional for several hours prior to the at
tempted hold-up
Vanished Before Robbery.
She disappeared before the gunner
entered the bank. and it is believed she
drove to the road near Browns Station
IN another machine and awaited the
fleeing bandits.
AT an inquest conducted yesterday by
Justice of the Peace Thomas Grifith or
Forestvllle. Owens was exonerated of all
Flame in Hayes death, Jury deciding
the bank employe had killed the robber
in sef-defenSe and in the performance
OF his duty
Owens did not attend the inquest,
which was held in the ONCE of the
Prince Georges County Commissioners,
because he was attending the funeral of
relative
Mrs. Hayes, accompanied by Acting
Capt. Edward j. Kelly, visited the
Ritchie undertaking parlor yesterday.
She broke down and wept when she
saw her husbands body.
She said she was unable to provide
money for his burial. and Justice Of
the Peace Griffith declared the corpse
would be buried in the 'pottcr's field"