Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-24
NAVAL OFFICERS
SERVANT ROBBED
Thieves Take All of colored
Mans Wardrobe but Pants.
Others Held Up.

Administering severe beating TO
their victim. two young white men who
yesterday forced their way into the
home Of Lieut.. Lyman s. Perry. U. s. NJ,
at 44l3 K1ing1e street, Wesley Heights.
robbed Edward Murphy, 26-year-old
colored caretaker, OF complete ward
robe, with the exception Of . solitary
pair Of trousers. Murphy valued the
loss at $50.
Lieut.. Perry, who Is press relations of
ficer at the Navy Department, was visit
ing friends in Annapolis with his wife
at the time Of the robbery.
Murphy told police the robbers gained
entrance by cutting o screen door In
tackled him when he went down to in
vestigate and demanded that he tell
them the location Of articles Of value.
The colored man said he pleaded that
Lieut.. ard Mrs. Perry had all the
money with them. Failing to obtain
the desired information, the men then
beat him, Murphy declared.
Allowed to Keep Pants.
The intruders took the caretaker's
complete outfit, including neckties and
q watch, and were even going to re-
move his trousers when they relented
and permitted him to retain them.
More than $500 in cash and clothing
and jewelry valued at Sis were stolen
in a series OF robberies reported to
police today. An unsuccessful attempt
to rob q neighborhood theater safe also
was reported.
irwin Green, proprietor Of gasoline
filling station at Third and K streets.
told police $3S5 was stolen from bag
secreted in his office. He gave police
who disappeared shortly before the
money was missed.
Police began q city-wide search for
the suspect, colored man.
John w. Epley Of Baltimore was
held up and robbed of watch valued
at $40 and about 50 in cash last night.
A colored man covered him with q re-
volver and forced him to hand over
the watch and money at Seventh and
c streets southwest, he said.
Purse Cut From Wrist.
A pocketbook containing $40 was cut
from the arm OF Leila Ledbetter, 202T
Third street northeast, while she was
standing near Rhode Island avenue and
First street last night.
In another robbery last night tennis
equipment valued az $945 was stolen
by burglars who jimmied a rear VIM
dow and removed hinges from the door
OF q tennis shop at 1919 Fifteenth
street william o. Shreve, manager of
the store, said the equipment stolen in
cluded rackets, material used for
stringing them and various other ten
mis- equipment.
Thieves who stole three overnight
cases obtained clothing and jewelry
worth SITS and $3.50 in cash. Two Of
the bags, belonging to Elizabeth McNa-
mara and Dorothy Shots, both of
Staunton, Va, were taken from the
waiting room at Union Station. The
other, the property of Gertrude Bliss,
Vienna, Va, was stolen from an auto
mobile parked on Eleventh street be-
tween Z and r.
The attempted safe robbery took
place last night in the Offices of the
Apollo Theater, 624 H street northeast,
1t was reported to police today by Paul
A. Hurney, manager Of the theater.
The combination dial had been
broken on and o small hole drilled
near the dial. The burglars apparently
became frightened and fed, leaving a
set Of tools on the floor near the safe.