Evening star., 1932-02-07
Police Furnished Description;
Link Gunman With Other
Attacks.
AUTO WITH MARYLAND
LICENSE TAGS HUNTED
Body Discovered With Five
Wounds; Cash Register in Store
Open, But Money Is Left.

A daring bandit shielding his identity
behind a pair of heavy goggles last
night shot and killed Paul Riedel, 55-
year-old proprietor of a bakery at
321512 Mount Pleasant street after vic
timizing two other storekeepers in the
Northwest section.
The 'goggled" bandit also held up
and robbed David T. Tievsky. who
operates a grocery store at 1904 Wis
consin avenue of Sl40, and attempted
to rob Richard Harris. an employe of
Kohler's Radio Store, at 3403 Connect
cut avenue.
Riedel was shot five times with 32-
caliber revolver while apparently re-
sisting a holo-up in his bakery. There
were three wounds in his left hand and
arm, one in his chest and one in his
heart. which killed him.
Bullets Link Attacks.
Three spent bullets were found on
the floor of the bakery. They were
copper nosed. the type and caliber
corresponding to those used in the mys-
teriOuS shooting Thursday night OF
Gordon T. Backus of 3433 Mount Pleas
ant street, and Miss Doris Bean, 16,
of 14ll G street southeast and Miss
Helen Andrews, 18, of 58ll Sixth street.
The bandit apparently got no money
al the bakery. Police believe he was
frightened off.
Prior to the killing of Riedel the
bandit had been in two other stores IN
the same block, but made no attempt 10
molest the prOprjetOrs in either case,
customers being in the establishment.
See Gunman Fleeing.
He was seen fleeing from the scene
of the killing by Harry AltemuS, 44l2
Decatur street, who was passing in a
car in company with Miss Yvonne Bar
nett, BIS Mount Pleasant street. They
were going north and were attracted by
the sound of the shooting When they
looked up they saw the bandit emerge
from the bakery with a gun In MS
hand and set off south down Mount
Pleasant street. Telling her companion
that she was going to follow the bandlt,
Miss Barnett leaped from the car ana
went in pursuit of the man VINO was
half running and half walking down the
street. In the meantime, Altemus was
turning his own car and as he swung
around the bandit entered his car and
headed north.e AltemuS pursued and
was following the bandits car down
Seventeenth street which joins at Mount
Pleasant street near the bakery, when
he heard Miss Barnett, who had run
back to the bakery, scream out: Paul
is shot" With that he gave up the
chase and joined her at the door OF the
bakery
Alarm Spreads Quickly.
Word of the killing spread through
Mount Pleasant, already stirred by the
shooting of BaCkus. and alarms were
sent in to No. 2 precinct and police head
quarters. The first police to arrive,
Privates A. G. Mihell and c. N House,
found Riedel's body lodged against the
door. He had died instantly.
Headquarters Detectives and addi-
tional police reinforcements, came in
and carefully going over the bakery
found the three spent bullets. one be-
hind the counter, and the other two in
front of the counter. The cash register
which contained only some change was
open and apparently had not been dis
turbed. In RiedelS pockets were found
S46 in bills and his watch
Reconstructing the tragedy detectives
concluded that the baker who a short
while ago declared he would give bat
tie if a bandit ever came into his place.
had been standing behind the counter
and offered fight, and had been shot
there. and then had come out in front
Of the store and grappled with the ban
dit, only to receive his death wound.
Maryland Car Hunted.
Miss Barnett and AltemuS had
caught four numbers on the tag of the
Buick sedan in which the slayer made
his etaway-Maryland 209-3-and with
this clue and the description of the
bandit from several who had seen him,
the police went to work
The machine and tag numbers CORE
spond closely in description to the car
and tag reported in the shooting
Thursday night of Backus. Headquar-
ters detectives checked the Maryland
directory and found four sedans of the
same make. with numbers correspond
ing to those given as on the bandits
car, and four men were Immediately dis
patched to see the owners of these
machines.
About an hour an6 a half after the
shooting a car of similar appearance
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