Evening star., 1931-12-21
LIST Of R0BbER|ES
MOUNTS IN SPITE
OF POLICE DRIVE
Three Pedestrians, Nine
Homes and ID Stores Bur-
gIarized in Night.
BANDITS THROW VICTIM
DOWN FLIGHT OF STAIRS
One of Capitals Force Doing
Double Duty Under Glass
ford's Orders.

The Capitals mounting list of rob-
berries and hold-ups was further in
creased last night despite the extra
SHIFTS OF patrolmen ordered on duty by
Brig. Gen Pelham D. Glassford. SUPER
ihtenoent OF police. Burglars and
oandltS alike continued their activities
atnough virtually one-third of the
pence force was working double time
ana securing the city in search of crini-
mails
Three pedestrians were slugged and
roboed by a colored trio, hcld-ups
we're executed by a pair Of colcred
bandits, homes and IA stores We're
ourglarized and 2 persons were robbed
py plckpockets. The loot for the night
totaled several thousand dollars, police
estimated.
Thrown Downstairs.
In cne of the hold-ups the manager
OF gasoline station was trussed up
with heavy wire, then thrown down a
hight of steps to the basement. In one
OF the store r9bberles three colored men
carted away q safe weighing about 500
pounds, containing 1925 in cash and
checks
Detectives, concentrating on a hunt
Tor the bandits who have been haras-
sing taxi drivers and gasoline station
attendants during the last week, short
ly before midnight arrested William
James, colored, 20, and Thomas Wash
lngton, colored, 81 of lll7 First street.
Both men are said to have confessed
responsibility for number of recent
laxl hold-ups. They we're TO be ques-
toned at length today.
Two Other Men Held.
Police also are confident of solving
several store robberies with the arrest
OF Alfred Byrd, 29, and George S. Nav
nard, 22 both colOred who live at 928
Greens court. Byrd and MAYNARD were
arrested by third precinct police when
caught forcing open a cash register on
Iot at Virginia avenue and TWENTY
seventh street.
Patrolmen G. s. Eckels and T, R.
Rector, who arrested the men. SAID the
caSh register had been stolen a short
time before from the business estab-
lishment of Irving Furash. 500 Twentv-
| sixth street. Some change, taken from
the drawer, and a quantity of supplies
were recovered
Inc hrSt OF the two hold-ups report
ed last night occurred about II O'Clock.
When two colored men walked into fhe
standard Oil station at Rhode Island
avenue and Tenth street and asked the
nlght manager. Jack F. Crowley. GIG
MOTIFS street northeast. to show them
the way to the rest room.
When Crowley complied he was seized
from oehlnd, covered with a revolver
ana forced to open the safe. His can
tors took S170, bound the manager with
neavy wire and tossed him down a
IlIsnI OF stairs. Crowley was bTu:sci
ana cut. but managed to esc9pe il
minutes Later and telephone police.
Reports Taxi Hold-up.
Soon afterward William Keene. IS.
OF BATES road northeast, told police he
SaS neio up by colored man who
nailed his taxi at Eighth street and
Pennsylvania avenue southeast and
forced him to drive to Pierce court.
where he was robbed of S4 The
man ned with a waiting companion
Both James and Washington will he
| questioned today in connection with
the hold-ups. while they also are to be
viewed by Crowley and Keene.
James was arrested by Detective
SergtS. Carlton Talley. John Wise and
Patrolman G. E. Cooper of the first
Precnct station, at North Capitol and
l. streets. an hour after the taxi hold
up, While Washington was apprehended
at MS home soon afterWard on infor-
nauon obtained from James.
Slugged and Stabbed.
Harry Mcdonald, colored. of 60e O
Street. was Slugged by three footpads
ana then stabbed in the left side when
re resisted their attempt to rob him at
olXtn and l. streets last night. The
men ned after taking SO and diamond
stlckpln valued at $50. Mcdonald was
treated at Emergency Hospital.
Earlier in the night three colored men
held up Little A. Blake l44O B street
southeast, while he was walking in the
900 block of N street. They choked
MIN INTO unconsciousness after relieving
him OF $1,000 in cash, a watch and q
pair OF shoes. TIE same trio is believed
responsible for an attack on George II
Day, 1919 I street southeast. who was
! accoSted near AnacoStia Bridge and
robbed OF S175 after being beaten.
| The 500-pound safe was taken from
! the gasoline station of Rubin Green.
| Third and K streets. 1t contained Sl50
IN cash and SIS in checks. Green said.
| A thief believed to have been working
| alone entered several homes in the
! Mount Pleasant section and made off
with considerable loot Other homes
were robbed in other sections of the
| city.
! The pickpocket cases were reported
| by Rupert H. Margeson, 1920 I street,
and William Jackson. colored, of 1714
Fourteenth, street. Margeson said he
was robbed of SOS in cash in a down.
town theater. Two young white women
| are SUSPECTED of having taken his r,1Irse