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tall, light hair but dark complexion,
dark suit and gray overcoat.
In both holdups the new police radio
was called into use but radio scout cars,
hurried to the scenes, failed to find the
bandits.
Miss Boatwright told the police that
the bandit entered the branch laundry
of which she was in charge and de-
manded: "Give me all your money" He
kept one hand in his overcoat pocket,
as if holding a gun.
Too frightened to scream, Miss Boat
wright stood aside while the man walked
behind the counter, rifled the cash
drawer and walked out.
John c. Chevalier, general manager
of the Palace Laundry Co., said that
the bandit missed the greater portion of
the days receipts which had been coll
lected a short time before the hold-up,
while another amount, Secreted in the
rear of the store also was saved.
Posed as Officer.
In the third robbery of the evening a
young white man posing as policeman
walked up to James H. Skinner, coll
ored, So years old, of MAYORS court on
L street near his home, flashed a badge
and pistol and told the colored man
he was under arrest.
Skinner was forced to walk to Fifth
and l. streets, where his captor was met
by another man waiting in light
sedan. The colored man was forced
into the car and was driven to an alley
near Sixth and o streets, where he was
robbed of Sill. Skinner said he did not
think the badge shown by his captor
was a police badge.
Charles L. Richardson of Roanoke,
Va, the victim of the fourth robbery,
was sitting in an automobile parked on
De Sales street beside the Mayhower
Hotel with his nephew, Clifford S. San
ford, 1858 Biltmore street, when a.
young man stepped on the running
board of the car, pointed a revolver at
them, and ordered them to drive to
Jackson place and Pennsylvania avenue.
Here he ordered them to hand over their
money.
Richardson gave the man Sc cents
and he pocketed his gun and left.
Richardson had $156 in his pockets and
he and Sanford had watches and
jewelry which the bandit apparently
ignored.
Contractor Robbed.
Two colored men held up Thomas E.
Miller, a contractor, residing at 1918
Wisconsin avenue, last night near Ne
vada and Nebraska avenues, while he
was examining some concrete porcheS
he had put in in that locality, and OBJ
tanned $54 from him. Mr.. Miller said
that one of the colored men, about IS
years of age, 5 feet 10 inches tall wear
ing a cap, asked him for a match and
pulled a gun on him while his COM
panion watched.
The robber obtained nine SIS bills and
nine 81 bills from Mr.. Miller, he said,
and then directed him to drive him
and his companion in the contractors
car to- Florida avenue and T streets,
near Sixth street. where they got out
of the machine and ran away. Mr..
Miller returned to his home then and
reported the robbery to fourteenth
precinct police about 1890 o'clock. He
told the officers that the robbers COM
panion was about IS years of age and
about 6 feet in height and was lighter
than the other.
Three men were the victims of the
sixth hold-up reported last night, but
the lone bandit who staged it obtained
only SIS.
The robbery occurred near the Army
and Navy Club, at Seventeenth and
streets, the victims being Norman Gold
man, 1880 New Hampshire avenue; Key
Needles, 2514 @ street, and Milton
Straus, 1900 F street.
Stepping from the shadows as the
men were about to enter an automo-
bile, the robber ordered them to drive
him to the 1000 block NJ street, where
he forced them to give him their money.
Third precinct police are investigat-
ing.
One minute after the police radio sta
ton had broadcast a lookout for a BAN
dit, Detective Sergt. r. j. Cox jumped
out of a scout car at 1923 o'clock this
morning and arrested Emil Bryan
Cundriff, IS years, Of 155 L street, at
Connecticut avenue and L streets.
Police said that as Cundriff was ap-
preached by Detective Cox he reached
in his right coat pocket as If to shoot,
but the officer was too quick for him.
When searched at the police station,
the officers said, new revolver was
found on the prisoner, who denies all
knowledge of the hold-ups.