Evening star., 1932-02-11
Witnesses to Other UnsoIved
Crimes Will Face Youths
in Lineup Tonight.
POLICE MAKING CHECK
ON TWO AUTOMOBILES
Cab Theft Victim Aids Pursuit.
Gun Leveled at Detective
Sergeant Jams.

Inree youths, captured last night
| after chase in which several shots
were fired by one of the three police
men pursuing them through Rock
Creek Park, were questioned today In
| connection with the mysterious series
| OF shootings in which one man was
Killed and three other persons were
wounded during the past week.
The young men, one of whom is said
to have attempted to shoot Detective
Sergt. E, F. Lewis, also were to be quiz
zed concerning number of other un-
solved crimes, including the Staying Of
| Mrs. Elizabeth S. Jaynes, 57-year -old
cashier of the Garden-T-Shoppe, 1885
Columbia road.
The youths, William E. Mckinney,
lS, of Fitchburgh. Mass; William G.
Duffy, %. of Macon. Ga. and Willard
| Messic, "a, who said he has no home,
will be placed in the lineup at police
headquarters tonight and scrutinized by
witnesses in the various cases
After being grilled extensively by De-
tective Sergt. Harry x Wilson, chief of
the homicide squad, the three youths
were turned over to members OF the
| hold-up squad for further interrogation
All denied having any knowledge of the
! series of ShOOtingS, according to Will
son. Messic said he fell of a freight
train in Kansas City. Mo- las. October
and does not remember anything that
happened before that. He is not even
sure, he added, that Messic is his real
name, but several friends told him so.
Check Up on Two Cars.
Meanwhile, police were checking up
on two automobiles, one Of which, they
thought may have been used by the
| gunman who killed Paul Riedel, Al
year-old baker, and wounded an Agri-
! cultural Department forester and two
high school girls.
The trio was captured after a chase
which began when E. NJ Morningstar,
a taxicab driver, hailed radio cruiser
at Twenty ninth and Albemarle streets
and announced that three bandits
robbed him of S270 and drove away
| in his automobile.
With Lewis in the police car we're
Detective Sergt. J. j. Tolson and Po-
liceman r. J. Thompson. The taxicab
! was still in sight and the officers
ordered Morningstar, who lives at $50
| Fourteenth place, to accompany them
/ in pursuit Of it.
| Morningstar said he picked up the
| trio at Twenty-first street and Penn
! sylvania avenue and was directed to
drive to l640 Albemarle street-a ficti-
tious address. At Twenty-ninth and
| Albemarle. he said one of his pas
sengers" drew gun and ordered him
! to hand over his money.
Il gave them all I had" Morning
star said. Morningstar has wife and
two children.
Swerved Into Blind Driveway.
As Morningstar stepped into the
cruiser, his cab, driven by one of the
bandits. turned into the park The two
| machines swung in and out of the park
roadways, finally Strengthening out on
Military road
With the police automobile rapidly
gaining on them. the fugitives swerved
into a blind driveway. There they
| leaped from their machine and the
officers did likewise.
As Lewis ran toward the trio, Nc
Kinney is said to have drawn a .25
caliber automatic, leveled it at the de-
tective, and pulled the trigger. The
gun jammed. however, and the youths
turned 10 continue LHelI IlgnI.
Ordering them to halt, the officers
fired several shots into the ground. The
young men, apparently frightened. sur
rendered.
+ After being questioned at headquart-
ers they were locked up in separate pre-
cincts-Messic at the fifth, Duffy at
the sixth. and Mckinney at the ninth.
All were booked for investigation.
Sandberg to Examine Autos.
One of the cars being checked bv
police-a black sedan said to tally with
the general description of the one used
in the mysterious shootingS-laSt week
was found today in a garage on Barry
place, near Sherman avenue. 1t bore
no license plates.
TIE other machine. a dark blue coach,
was found abandoned last night in the
600 block of Morton street. Residents
of the neighborhood said it had been
there since Saturday midnight-about
an hour after the Reidel murder.
Inspector Burke order Sergt. Fred
Sandberg fingerprint expert, to ex-
anime both automobiles.
Meanwhile, William ]. Callan. 27 Of
Alexandria, arrested last night as
possible suspect in the shootings, still
was being held by tenth precinct police.
(YueSI1OUeu ny OtIcCOlNc OClSIo oci
Kuehling and James Collins, he denied
any knowledge of the crimes.
All Tips" Given Attention.
Nearly everybody in Washington It
seems, is on the lookout for clues that
may lead to the capture of the mys-
terious gunman.
Altogether, about 100 letters have
been received at police headquarters
from citizens claiming to have seen
either the gunman or his black sedan,
or both. Telephone calls of similar
nature also are being received almost
constantly.
And the police are so anxious to clear
up the mystery surrounding the series
Of shootings that Detective Sergt. H.
K. Wilson, chief of the homicide squad,
is keeping his men busy running down
all such tips" no matter how trivial
they may seem.