Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25
Cabman Is Lured to Alley
for Attack-Bullet En-
tiers Back.
PAIR LINKED TO OTHER
RECENT HACK HOLD-UPS
Loot Is $25-Victim Is Taken to
Emergency Hospital by Passerby
and Nearby Resident.

A taXicab driver was shot and per-
haps fatally wounded last night by one
Of two colored bandits who lured him TO
an alley between Eighth and Ninth
streets and M and N streets and robbed
him OF about $25.
The cab driver, Vernon A. Renshaw,
1902 Montgomery avenue, Bethesda,
Md, told second precinct police the
robbers hailed him near Fourteenth
and l. streets. AT their direction, he
said he drove to the alley, where one
of them--a tall man between Is and
80 years old-jammed a revolver into
his back and ordered him to give up
his money
With the gun still pressed against
his back, Renshaw continued, he got
out OF the cab and handed the bandit
the money.
Orders Him TO Walk.
1--WE got q good notion to shoot you
anyway" the robber said. GO on, walk
along down the alley-and don't look
backr'
AS Renshaw obeyed, the robber, with
out another word, fired. The bullet en-
tered Renshaw's back and lodged In his
abdomen The bandit fled as the
wounded man fell, screaming with pain
A colored resident of the neighbor-
hood, attracted by the shooting and the
wounded mans cries. ran into the alley
and found Renshaw. He placed tho
cab driver in another taxicab and &C
Companied by a paSSerby, drove to
Emergency Hospital. There, physicians
said Renshaw's wounds were so serious
he had little chance to recover.
Renshaw told police both men were
young and that the one with the re-
volver was tall and the other short. One
wore light clothing and the other wore
dark.
Lieut.. Frank varney, after notifying
ell precincts to be on the lookout for
the bandits, said their descriptions and
their methods correspond with those
of two robbers who had staged q series
of taxicab hold-ups here within the
last two months.
Lived with Mother.
Renshaw. who is %, lives with his
mother, hts wife and two children, and
n brother. He has been driving taxi
about four years.
His mother said she had Fremont
ton something was going to happen"
last night. He was employed By the
Dial Cab Co.
Another holdup in which an armed
colored man figured occurred last night
at the Sanitary Grocery store at Third
and X streets.
o. II. Freeman. sis Buchanan
street, . clerk Elm the store, said the
colored man came into the store BRAN
dishing o pistol and shouting. Hands
up, I'm a robber." Unimpressed at
first. Freeman told the intruder "he
would have to see the manager"
Asks for Manager.
Where's the manager2" asked the
robber.
Mr. Southern is the manager. He's
over there" Freeman replied, pointing
to where Andrew w. Southern, 1247 B
street, southeast, was busy stacking up
some canned goods on counter.
What do you want?" Southern said
he asked the maskman.
Il want all you got in the cash
register"
Southern, Freeman and the robber
then made grab for the register at
the same time. The robber backed
the two men of with his gun and
helped himself 10 six SIS bills
The manager and Freeman told
police they saw the robber few
minutes later running north on Third
street, accompanied by another colored
man dressed in reddish brown uni
form with uniform cap to match.