Evening star., 1932-07-11
SEEK TOL|NK PAIR
T0FOUR ROBBER|ES
Montgomery Police Arrest
Two in Rock Creek Park
After HoId-up.
BY staff Correspondent Of The Star.

By Stan correspondent OF The Star.
BETHESDA, Md, July 1.-Two
Washingtonians, one a l7-year-old
youth, are being held at the Bethesda
substation as suspects in four week end
holdups following their arrest by Mont
gomery County Policemen W. Frank
Soper and Webb Hersperger in Rock
Creek Park near here early today,
They are booked as Daniel Leather
man, Is years old. and Lawson Combs
II, both of the 14oO block on Twelfth
street, Washington, D. C. and are said
by police to have confessed staging one
Of the holdup5, but to have firmly de-
MED any connection with the remain
ing three.
Leatherman and Combs were taken
into custody few moments after they
are said to have held up Ashby Grant
of Silver Spring, Md. in vain at
tempt to rob him while he was seated
in a car parked in the Maryland Sec
tion of Rock Creek Park. Grant had
no money with him at the time.
Hersperger and Soper were patrolling
the Maryland park area shortly after
midnight when they stopped to admon-
ish Grant for parking his car without
lights.
Points Out Car on Road.
Lights" Grant shouted. stop that
car. Those two men Just held me up
he cried, pointing toward a car only
a short distance down the road.
The two officers wheeled their auto
mobile around and dashed off after the
unsuspecting pair, Hersperger jumping
on the running board of their coupe
while it was still in motion and cover
ing the two men with his revolver
before they we're aware they were being
followed.
A .32-caliber revolver. approximately
$40 in cash and the keys to Grant S
automobile we're found on the two men.
police reported Their machine bore
Earrisonburg, Va, license plates, and a
check is being made today to deter
mine whether the car was stolen by
Combs and Leatherman.
Questioned by Sergt. LIE Roy Rodgers
commander of the local substatlon. the
two men are said to have confessed
holding up Grant in an effort to obtain
money to pay of some bills" but de-
MED they were the same pair that had
held up another notorist earlier IN the
night or the duo that robbed two
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Victims to View Pair.
Steven w. Lohr of Kensington, Md,
who was robbed of $3.50 by two men
at Jones Mill road and Connecticut
avenue, Chevy Chase, Md, few mo-
ments before Grant was accosted by
Combs and Leatherman; Harry O.
Decker of Baltimore and Frank c.
Daniel, jr., of 1915 Joselyn street
Washington, were to view the pair to-
day in an effort to identify them.
Decker and Daniel were robbed OF
So and $3.50, respectively, in hold-ups
staged early yesterday, the former on
Jones Mill road and Daniel in Rock
Greek park near the spot where Grant
was held up.
Police asserted that, while the pair
denied robbing Lohr, Decker and Dan
iel, the hold-upS were executed in the
same manner by two men whose de-
scriptions tally in every detail with
those of Combs and Leatherman, and
in each instance the keys were taken
from their machines and left lying in
the road some distance away.
Detectives of the Washington hold
up squad were to question the two sus-
poets today to determine whether they
have any connection with any hold
ups staged in the Capital.