Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-09
Hacker GrappIes With Armed
Youth After Being Forced
From His Machine.
MORE THAN 1000 TAKEN
IN SERIES OF THEFTS
Storekeepers, Hotel Clerk and Fill
ing Station Held Up-Parked
Cars Are Looted.

George A. Pearson, 16, of Dorchester
Mass was being held by police today
in connection with the hold-up of q
taxicab driver in Southeast Washington
shortly after the boy arrived in the
Capital
The hold-up was one of series over
the weekend, in which police est1-
mate more than $4,000 was taken from
a long list of victims, including store
keepers, a hotel clerk, filling station
proprietor and others.
Quick action on the part of John
G. King, Takoma Park, Md, driver OF
the cab which Pearson Is said to have
attempted to steal, resulted in the Gull
prit'S capture. King told police he was
hailed by the youth in the 100 block
Pennsylvania avenue and ordered tc
drive toward the southeast section OF
the city.
Jumped on Running Board.
AT Nichols avenue and Chesapeake
street southeast, King told police his
fare pressed gun into his back and
demanded money. He was given So
and then ordered the cab driver ont
OF the machine. King, noting the
youthfulness of the bandit, said he
jumped on the running board and
grappled with Pearson. The gun ex-
ploded during the scuff1e, the bullet
going wild.
Pearson is being detained at the Re-
ceiving Home for investigation.
The headquarters automobile squad
still was searching today for the auto
mobile of Maj Parker West, deputy
governor of the United States Soldiers
Home, which was taken at pistol point
from Maj. Vests chauffeur in front of
Wardman Park Hotel last night The
chauffeur, st. Clair T. Newman, col
ored, 1000 block Twenty first street, said
two armed white men approached him
as he waited in the machine and forced
him out of the car.
License Tags Stolen.
The men who took Mai. Vests car
are believed responsible for the theft
of a set of automobile tags stolen from
the machine of James T. Cahill, 300
block of H street northeast. One of
the tags from Maj. Vests automobile
was left on the rear of Cahilps car.
Two armed bandits held up Homer
Carr, proprietor of delicatessen store
at 1920 Georgia avenue, last night, ac-
cording to police, and escaped with a
total of $780, He was forced into q
closet while the men made their es-
cape, he told police
: Thomas Barrick, 1900 block Benning
road northeast. was held up in his store,
at Eighth and o streets, last night by
two colored men, who took a total of
SO in change.
+~tal of So was taken from Arthur
Asher, night manager of the Home
Service Station, in the 400 block of
Maryland avenue southwest, by an
1n.1,r A,I-H
forced into a rear room while the man
escaped.
Hotel Clerk Robbed.
A well dressed man, about SO. last
night held up the night clerk of the
Winston Hotel, 100 block First street,
and escaped with SOS before police, who
were given wrong address, arrived on
the scene The clerk, Ernest B. Jack
son, 500 block E street northeast, told
police the man asked about some rooms
and then suddenly whipped out a gun
and forced him to lie prone behind
the counter while he rified the cash
register.
Clothing valued at $145 was stolen
from the parked machine of Maury c.
Metro, 900 block Quincy street, he
told police. The property was stolen in
the $500 block of Illinois avenue.
The barber shop of George Kormtakis,
located on New York avenue near Ninth
street, was entered yesterday and razors
and towels valued at $40 stolen.
Approximately $3.50 worth OF goods
was taken from the drug store of Moe
Jacobs, 5000 block Fourteenth street.
which was entered through a skylight
early yesterday, police reported.
Hubbard H Longest, las G street
northeast, reported his automobile was
entered by Sitting the top with knife
as it was parked in front of his home
last night and $78 worth OF clothing
stolen