Evening star., 1932-06-04
Three Women and Two Men
Are Captured After Looting
of Drug Store.
HELD ON SUSPICION
OF OTHER ROBBERIES
Representative Douglass Secretary
Proves Hero of Pursuit Which
Ends at Rosslyn.

Three women and two men, captured
after Smile chase that followed the
hold-up of a drug store at Connecticut
and Florida avenues last night, were
being held by police today for investi-
CATION in connection with several other
recent robbgies.
The chase during which five shots
are said to have been fired by the al
legged bandits as they sped through
Georgetown IN a taXicab, ended in
Rosslyn, Va, where the group sur
rendered to Traffic Policeman A. D.
Clark.
Those arrested identified themselves
as Clementine M Cavalier, %, Of the
1900 block of Rhode Island avenue;
Leona V. Upperman, 26. of the 2lO0
block of K street; Loretta Suffering,
%, of the $500 block of Fourteenth
street; William T. Hardy, 81. of the
1900 block of H street. and Anthony
Owens, %, OF the 21O0 block of X
street.
Taxicab Driver Booked.
The driver of the cab Ray E. Tabor,
30, Of the 900 block Of New Hampshire
avenue, also was arrested and booked
for investigation. He said the five
forced him at pistol point to speed
and would not permit him to stop until
cornered In a traffic jam on the Vir-
ginia side of Key Bridge.
J. Frank Gaffney, secretary to Repre-
sentative John j. Douglass Of Massa-
chusetts, led the pursuit. He was get
ting into his automobile, parked near
the pharmacy. he said, when Hardy
and Owens ran from the store and
3oined the three women in Tabor's taxi
Gaffney followed the cab to Thirty
fifth and M streets, where he attracted
the attention of Clark, on duty there.
The officer leaped upon the running
board of another car that had joined
the chase and covered the alleged
bandits when their taxi became in
snarled in the traffic tie-up.
Tabor told police Owens forced him
to drive the five to the drug store when
he went to the alleged robbers home to
collect a cab fare. Owens kept him
covered throughout most of the trip,
Tabor declared
At Connecticut and Florida avenues,
Tabor related, one of the women left
the taxi and entered the store, return
ing a few moments later with the word
'.the coast is clear" Then, according
to Tabor, Owens and Hardy went into
the pharmacy leaving the women in
the cab.
Dozen Customers in Store.
More than a dozen customers were
In the store, but Owens and Hardy,
police reported, forced their way past
Miss Isabel D. Pickett, bookkeeper for
the manager, Arthur H. Vigue. and
entered the prescription laboratory.
There, it is said, they covered the
pharmacist and ordered him to open a
safe containing approximately s400.
Scooping the money into their pockets,
they fed through a side door.
Meanwhile, Miss Pickett had spread
the alarm among the customers and
telephoned the police She ran out
the front door as Owens and Hardy
emerged from the side entrance and
attempted to trip them. They pushed
her aside, however, and jumped into
, the taxi.
James H. sprigman, 21s1 Florida
,venue, had just left the pharmacy,
having his wife and daughter inside
1e ran to the side of the cab as it
Pulled away One of the alleged rob-
bes Is said to have leaned from a
widow and fired at Sprigman's feet as
the taxi sped away 1t was this shot
tha\ attracted Gaffneys attention, and
he nd several cab drivers began the
pursut.
WIEN covered by Clark and ordered
to surrender, the alleged bandits are
said 70 have offered no resistance
Viguetold police Owens formerly was
emploAd by him.