Evening star., 1933-09-26
CONFESSIONS SOLVE
HOLD-UP ON STREET
Detective Also Reports Re.
covery of Loot Tossed
Behind Hedge.
Both participants in the daring $4,000

Both participants In the daring $4,000
hold-up Of variety store executive on
a crowded downtown street last night
have made verbal confessions. Capt.
Bernard " Thompson, assistant chief
of detectives. declared this afternoon.
Recovery of the loot-which one Of
the bandits tossed behind a hedge as
he fled the scene Of the crime, with q
park policeman and several volunteer
pursuers close behind him-also was
announced by Thompson.
The hold-up was staged in front OF
the American Security g. Trust Co.
Fifteenth street and New York avenue
about pm. yesterday. One Of the al
legged bandits-Maurice Shelton. "a
Brookmont, Md, was captured by Park
Policeman j. c. Bracey a few minutes
later The other alleged hold-up man.
Murray W. Ziegler. 2S, East Orange
N. j.. was trapped in a fashionable
apartment house by Detective Sergts
Elmer Lewis and James Tolson about
m. today.
Declared Former Policeman.
The confessions were obtained after
the hold-up victim-Maurice j. Nor
rison, assistant manager Of the G. G.
Murphy Co. store. 1914 G street-identi-
fed Ziegler, a former Pennsylvania
State policeman.
Morrison, according to the informa-
ton given the detectives, was about
to place the money. representing the
stores receipts for the day, in the
night depository Of the bank. Az he
crossed the street. he said, he noticed
taxicab parked at the curb.
Two men suddenly leaped from the
drivers seat. he said, and while one
Of them grabbed him around the neck
the other man struck him on the
head with the butt Of an automatic
pistol.
He held the money, wrapped in plain
brown paper, between his knees, he
said, while both men fought to wrest
it from him. After brief but furious
struggle one of the men hit him again,
he said, and he slumped to the side
walk, letting the package OF money
slip from his grasp.
Large Crowd Gathers.
1t was picked up by one of the rob-
bers, who, with his companion, turned
and fled through the rapidly growing
throng As the hold-up men darted
through the crowd, moving very much
like two foot ball players trying for a
II,
unsuccessful attempts to halt them. A
woman standing on the corner of Fiji
teenth and H streets began screaming
when she saw the bandits heading fer
her and one Of them threatened her
with his gun.
At this point, the robbers separated.
One Of them ran to the Shoreham
Building, stumbling and falling as he
lodged through the doorway. Several
men tried to grab him. but he jumped
to his feet and got away.
His companion, meanwhile, had
leaped into a taxicab and, covering
the driver with his pistol. forced him
to speed away.
The first bandit continued his flight
afoot, falling and accidentally dis
charging his gun at Vermont avenue
and H street. Bracey, attracted by the
shot, took out after him, and the officer
overlook the fleeing man, his gun still
and ordered the bandit to drop that
gun"
The robber obeyed. At police head
quarters the man, who gave his name
as Shelton, was booked for investiga-
ton. Fifteen rounds of ammunition
were found in his pockets, the police
said.
Later, Lewis and Tolson went to
Shelton's apartment-in a fashionable
building in the Northwest section-and
lay in waiting for zIegler, whom they
ordered to surrender when he opened
the door and stepped inside. He was
unarmed, but he gave the detectives
the name and address of a friend, to
whom he had given his automatic,
shortly after the hold-up, and the
weapon was recovered
The money was found by the detec-
I streets.
The taxi used in the hold-up was re-
ported stolen by Grover r. Gwaltney,
2019 N street. who said it was taken
from its parking place in front Of his
home.