Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-03
1.-TWO men HUNTED
| AFTER CONFESSION
| |NHACKER'SDE
News of Staying of Solomon
Kept From His Sister, Who
Is Seriously III.
ALLEGED SLAYER'S PALS
| ARE KNOWN TO POLICE
Prisoner Says Chauffeur Was Shot
When He Tried to Flee
| From Hold.up.

Although man said to have confessed
the murder of Mamie Solomon, 90
year-old taxicab driver, was under ar
rest today and his two accomplices
were expected to be captured momen-
tarily, the slain mans sister, seriously
Ill, still was ignorant Of his death.
The man reported to have confessed
shooting Solomon during an attempted
hold-up last Wednesday night is Will
liam G. Robinson, alias Robertson, 10,
colored, 124 e street southwest.
According to Inspector Frank s. w.
Burke, chief Of detectives, the names
of the two colored men with Robinson
at the time Solomon was killed were in
the possession of members of the
homicide squad several days ago.
Says Four Attempted HoId-up.
Questioned at police headquarters,
Robinson is said to have admitted he
and three other men attempted to hold
up 1sadore Koblem, proprietor of q gro
Gerry at 1856 South Capitol street, about
two hours before the murder.
Previously it had been thought only
three men figured in the South Capt.
toll street robbery attempt. According
to Robinson, however, the fourth mem
Der of the group left them shortly be-
fore the staying.
The foursome, Robinson told detec-
tives. styled themselves the Silent
Four" Armed with this information,
police said they expected to link the
men with between Is and 20 other hold
ups staged here recently.
Robinson was arrested the day after
the murder, when Policeman B. D.
Crooke, second precinct, captured him
act OF breaking into house on w
street near Ninth
Sought While In Jail.
Not knowing Robinson already was
In custody, members of the homicide
squad continued their quest for him,
and the fact that he was lodged in
the second precinct. station did not be-
come known to them until yesterday.
At Crooke's suggestion, Precinct De-
tective M. j. Mahaney quizzed Rob-
inson Finding he answered the de-
scription of one of the men wanted in
connection with the Staying, the detec-
tive notified Detective Sergts. Thomas
Sweeney and Carlton Talley.
Robinson was grilled by Sweeney
and Talley, who reported they obtained
a signed confession from him. In his
statement to the detectives, Robinson
is said to have told the following story:
He and the three other men were
After firing shot when the storekeeper
and his wife screamed. the three fled,
taking taxi and going to restaurant
at Seventh and M streets southwest.
Hailed SOlomons Cab.
From the lunch room three of the
men went to Ninth street and New York
avenue, where they hailed Solomon's
cab, ordering the driver to take them
to Union and o streets southwest.
When they reached their destination
they paid Solomon the fare. Robinson
then drew his gun, q .45-caliber auto
matte, and commanded the driver to
hand over his money.
Solomon'S response was to throw his
automobile into gear and speed away
Alarmed. Robinson shot the friver, the
BULLET piercing his neck and severing
his jugular vein. The Car crashed into
tree, the three bandits leaped out
| and ran to the Seventh Street Wharves,
| where Robinson tossed the pistol into
/ the river.
At the time Of the Staying, one Of
Solomons two sisters, who Is said to
have a heart malady, was critically Ill
and the news was kept from her. The
drivers 75-year-old mother. over
whelmed by grief when she learned Of
his death, also is said to have become
Ill.
Quiet Signs Posted.
Fearing the shock might cause the
sisters death, other members of the
family prevented her from seeing news
paper accounts of the killing. Neverthe-
less, the sisters condition is said to have
grown worse, with the result that tenth
precinct police were asked to prevent
motorists and others from making any
| more noise than necessary in the
vicinity of the Solomon home at TOT
Quincy street The Solomons' telephone
also was ordered disconnected tempo
rarily.
A short time later the Trafiic Bureau
was urged to close the street. This
being impossible, quiet signs of the
type posted in hospital zones were
placed in the block in which the Solo,
mems live. They will not be taken down,
it was said at the Traffic Bureau, until
the sister is out Of danger.
Meanwhile. detectives apparently are
skeptical concerning Robinson's asser-
ton he does not know the whereabouts
of his accomplices. They also are in
clined to doubt his statement that he
threw his gun into the river, but that
one of his accomplices also was armed.