Evening star., 1932-09-16
TWO MEN.BEATEN
j BY AUT0|ST AFTER
ALLEGED HOLD-UP
Car Crashes During Battle
as One of Pair FIees
With Money Bag.
POLICE TO RESCUE
OF STEPHEN CATALAN0
Prisoners Give Names Of Storey and
Williams, Bailed in Other
Robbery Cases.

Two men were being held for inveS-
tigation by police today following an
alleged hold-up attempt in which they
are said to have been beaten and dis
armed by their intended victim. whose
automobile crashed into parked car
while the battle was in progress.
The men under arrest gave their
names as Vernon S. Storey, 33, OF the
1000 block of Fourteenth street north
east and George Williams, 26, of the
1000 block of Sixteenth street. They
were to be questioned today in connec-
ton with several recent hold-ups. in
Guiding the series in which Sanitary
Grocery Co. stores were robbed.
According to police. the two men yes
terday approached Stephen Catalano,
26 as he was about to enter his ma
chine. parked in the 700 block OF Thir-
teenth street northeast, and informed
him they we're officers.
Informed Of Arrest.
Flashing a badge, one of the men is
said to have told Catalano he was
under arrest" and ordered him to
come along with US to the ninth pre-
Cinct" Catalano. who lives at 1906
Perry street, Mount Rainier, offered no
resistance, he said, but got into his au-
tomobile, seating himself between the
two men.
AS the man behind the steering
wheel started the car, Catalano glanced
down, he said. and noticed his money
bag, containing between S120 and 5000
tnat he had collected, was missing
This angered him, he continued, and
he kicked the driver in the face. Both
men attacked him then, he declared.
one of them drawing gun, while the
other grappled with him.
The man with the gun, according to
Catalano, was urged by his companion
to use the gat on him." as the battle
continued in the moving machine.
Grasping the drivers nose, Catalano
vrested the gun from his hand and
threw it into the street, he said.
Il pulled his head back and got a
scissors hold around his neck" Cata-
lano went on. 'at the same time throw
ing my arms around the other fellow.
child in the path of the automobile
which was steering itself, and I knew
We were going to hit them.
Il let go with my arms, grabbed the
wheel and swerved the car away from
the woman and the child. We crashed
into parked machine, and one of tn.
men jumped out and started to run,
taking my money bag with him"
Detective Sergt. Jake Wolf, noticing
the fight as he drove past, pursued
the man with the money bag, cap
turing him in an alley between G and
H streets and Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets northeast. The bag still
was in the mans possession, but, police
said, 1t contained only about S35 IN
silver.
NeaDubi1e Catalano u,as continuing
his struggle with the other man, sub
sequently identified as Storey, while a
rapidly growing crowd looked on. The
fight was interrupted by detectives
cruising in a police automobile.
Although both prisoners are consid-
erably larger than Catalano, who is
only about feet 5 inches tall and
weighs but 130 pounds, they were
somewhat battered when Detective
Sergt. Steve Brodie. Ninth Precinct De-
tective Harold Johnson and another
policeman halted the battle. The badge
said to have been displayed by Storey
was identified as one lost recently by
q second precinct policeman.
Occupation Not Given.
Catalano refused to give his occu-
patton, merely explaining the bag con-
tained his collections. i"
Both Storey and Williams, at the
time Of their arrest were at liberty on
$500 bond each. police reported, IN
connection with a charge of stealing
car about month ago.
Storey, according to police records,
was arrested in 1924 in connection with
the death Of Charles F. Jarvis, who was
run over by machine in Keanes lane
northeast Both Storey and the driver
of the automobile, James O'Connor,
we're charged with first-degree murder,
but were convicted Of mansIaughter and
given five-year sentences.
Williams, also known as Ebert Pierce
and George Wright, likewise has rec
ord, police said.