Evening star., 1933-03-05
Valuable Diamond Ring and
Bracelet Are Taken
From Visitors.
MANY AUTOMOBILES
ARE BROKEN INTO
st. Paul Police Inspector Loses
Trunk, Bumpers and License Plate.
Hotel Rooms Robbed.

Washingtonians and inaugural yisitors
were robbed OF total of nearly SIS, 1000
by burglars and pickpockets, a survey of
police reports disclosed last night.
Mrs. Damon Runyon. wife Of the
newspaper writer and author, suffered
perhaps the largest loss when her
pocketbook was stolen from under her
arm as she watched the parade pass
Fourteenth street. She told police it
contained 7-carat diamond ring and
a diamond brooch worth about $4,000.
FOR return OF the purse, which also
contained key to her hotel suite here;
SAFETY deposit key on a New York
bank and other personal articles she
offered reward Of 5000.
Robbed at Reception,
Mrs: Samuel McFetridge, wife Of the
Philadelphia publisher, also was the
victim OF purse snatcher. reporting
that her pocketbook containing a IS .OO0
diamond bracelet was removed from un-
Ger her arm at the Governors recep-
ton Friday night at the Pan-American
Building
Dr. Joseph Horgan, $3.50 Kanawha
street, reported his home was entered
early yesterday by a burglar who stole
a woman's fur cape worth $1,000, a pair
OF gold cuff links valued at slOO and
pearl and platinum studs worth s1OO.
number OF automobiles belonging to
out-of-town men and women were re-
ported to have been broken into.
Charles Altschul of New York City re-
ported the loss CT two cameras worth
500 from his car.
Bumpers Stolen.
Police Inspector William McMullin Of
i'm, bnI
from his car along with the bumpers
and a license plate, the total value of
which he placed at $50
George H. Wilson, 1923 Varnum street.
reported the theft Of an overcoat. VIII
son, an accounting and auditing assist
ant for the District, said the coat con-
tained the key to the District auditors
office in the District Building. He val
ued the coat at about $50.
Two visitors, John c. Long, Charles
ton. S. c., and George W. Amberger,
wilmington, Del, were robbed while in
their downtown hotels Longs coat.
containing a $3.50 stickpin and a dia-
mond-studded Elk's pin worth s35, was
tanning about $40, was removed from +
room.
c. S. Cunningham Of Baltimore and
James H. Perkins, Washington, Pa,
lost $40 and $50, respectively, to pick
pockets, they reported.
Apartment Entered.
Leo P. Kelly 1881 Cathedral avenue.
reported his flrst-flcor apartment was
entered late Friday night or early yes
terday and $500 diamond ring, three
studs worth S100 and a Distinguished
Service Cross stolen.
Augustus p. Conlisk, Monroe, Mich,
reported that $345 was lost or stolen
from him somewhere in the city"
Robert Halter, 1908 Thirteenth street,
reported the loss of diamond bracelet
worth $2l5.
Miss Ethel Wilson, Wilmington, Del,
reported to police her pocketbook, con-
tanning 81 in cash and $40 express
check. was snatched from her in the
1900 block of N street.
Mary Seccombe of Lee Heights said
her purse. containing $40, was snatched
from her near Eighteenth and Massa-
chusetts avenue.
Woman Robbed Of SIG.
Frances H. Meader, 1925 Fifteenth
street, reported to police she was robbed
CT SIG by q stranger who twice knocked
ner Gown when she answered the door
bell.
The woman told police the man struck
her IN the face and knocked her down.
When she arose he again hit her. after
which she tainted, according to the
police report.
After regaining consciousness, she
said, $16 was missing from her pocket
book and other contents scattered on
the flor