Evening star., 1932-11-28
.SLUGGERS ROB
c|GARSTORE CLERK
SchuIte's Place Held Up Sec
ond Time in Three Months.
Other Robberies.
+ X. ROOTMAN ARRIVES AT

For the second time in three months
bandits last night held up the A. Schultz
Cigar Store, Fifteenth and G. streets.
They slrgged the clerk and escaped with
$215 after one had donned q white
coat and posed as an employe.
Arthur B. Snyder, A, of 1886 East
Capitol street, the only clerk in the
store, said his suspicious were aroused
by the actions of two well-dressed young
men. who entered the place shortly
lady's cigarette lighter, but before Sny-
der could show It to them, two more
customers, a young man and woman,
walked in.
Afraid he was about to be held up,
Snyder asked the man with the girl
to stay In the place, but he left imme-
diately after being waited on.
Snyder said he showed the bandits a
lighter, and one of them pulled a
gun, commanding: stick 'em up" Be-
fore he could comply, he declared, the
man struck him over the left eye with
the butt of the weapon.
Bound and Warned.
The robbers bound the dazed clerk
and, pressing a revolver against his
side, warned him not to move or make
an outcry. One of them put on a
clerks coat and took 5000 from the
cash register and SIS from Snyders
pockets. They locked the store door
from the outside as they departed.
Snyder said he managed to crawl to
the front of the store, where he at
tracted the attention of a pedestrian,
who summoned police.
When the store was robbed on the
previous occasion different clerk was
bound and locked up In a rear room
while the bandits looted the place.
In another hold-up last night, Burr
w. Fletcher, 20, assistant manager of
a gasoline filling station at New Hamp-
shire avenue and M street, was robbed
of $135 when he stopped to comply with
q request for a match.
Fletcher, who lives at 1411 Twenty
first street, told police he closed the
filling station about 10 o'clock last
night, put the days receipts in his
pocket and left for his home. He said
1t Is customary for the man who closes
the station to take all the money home
with him.
Asked for Match.
Near Twenty-first and o streets,
Fletcher was accosted by a man, who
stepped out of an automobile parked
alongside the curb
Got a match. buddy?" the stranger
inquired.
Fletcher produced the match and
lighted the mans cigarette
20. K" the man said as he took
puff. Now let's have your cash."
Fletcher said he looked down and
saw the muzzle of a revolver a few
inches from his body. Obtaining the
money, the man got in the car, where
companion waited, and the pair drove
away.
Thieves last night stole two overcoats
from the colored Seventh Day Ad-
ventist Church. 1910 Sixth street. One
OF the coats belonged to Rev. James
Gershon Dasent, pastor of the church,
who lives at 504 Twenty-third place
northeast, and the other to Grant N
Smith, 4236 Fades street. They were
taken from the Church study.
Fred Davis, 1908 First street north
east. reported to police that he was
held up at pistol point by two colored
men at First and N streets southeast,
and robbed Of SIS cents.
Among those reporting stores broken
into and robbed last night were Georgia
PaulimeakuS, manager of lunch room
at the Municipal Market; Bessie Banks,
proprietress Of lunch room at 1921
Fourteenth street; Charles w. Peel,
manager Of an Atlantic & Pacific Tea
Co. store at 1418 Seventeenth street,
and Nathan Wolf, proprietor of nov
city store at 704 Florida avenue. A
small quantity of loot was taken from
each place.
A garage in rear of 1882 o street was
broken into last night, police were in
formed, and tools and two chauffeurs'
uniforms, valued at S227, were stolen.
John T. Graham, 3038 r street, made
the report.
Taxi Driver Robbed by Two.
Robert Pritchard. 1924 N street, a
taxi driver, told police two passengers
In his cab held him up and robbed him
Of $3.50 last night after he had driven
them from Eleventh street and Penn
sylvania avenue to some distance past
Marlboro, Md. One of the men was
armed with a pistol, Pritchard said.
A colored man smashed show win
dow In a music store, at 919 d street
early today, took a saxaphone, guitar
and several other articles, but was
forced to throw away his loot during
chase by policeman. He was not ap-
pretended
Policeman r. II. McGhee, first pre-
cinct, heard the window break and ran
toward the store. He saw the colore6
man run into an alley. The store is
owned by Moses Goldberg, 1888 Column
bia road.