Evening star., 1933-12-18
SHOOTING CLIMAX
TO 0HOLD-UPS HERE
Robbers Get More Than
ST, 200 During Week End.
Safe Stolen.

Robbers obtained more than $1,000
in series Of week end hold-ups and
burglaries climoxed this morning by
the shooting Of a colored suspect and
the looting of dress shop at 1906 G
street.
40, colored. was near death at Freed
mems Hospital from charge of shot
fired shortly after midnight by a guard
in Myer Cohen's store at 70 K street
The guard, Joseph Hannah, colored,
was on duty last night for the first
time, armed with shot gun. Hannah
said Coleman broke glass panel from
door about 1890 o'clock and accosted
him with the order to Stick up your
hands,"
Hannah said he replied by shooting
the man in the abdomen. Doctors at
the hospital said Coleman may die from
the wound.
Mrs. Liudean Wilson of 1922 Massa-
chusetts avenue, manager of the Bud
Dress Shop at 1906 G street. was held
robbed of S5l4 by well dressed man
and woman
Mrs. Wilson followed the couple as
1206-B G street, asking that police be
notified. Returning to her store, Mrs
Wilson tainted. After being revived
she described the man as about IS
years old. well dressed and wearing a
black moustache. The woman, Mrs
Wilson told police, was a blonde, also
well dressed and about % years old.
Jewelry Store Robbed.
Window smashers early today stole
s472 in jewelry and watches from
Store, 627 Seventh street.
The robbery was the third reported
by the jewelry company. About two
weeks ago a tray of diamond rings
worth approximately $4,000 disappeared
mysteriously from a showcase in the
store A similar theft, in which a
tray of rings of much the same type
was stolen, was reported about three
years ago.
Burglars carted off 500-pound safe
from chain store at 215 Upshur street
some time before the opening hour this
morning. Fritz Colvin, manager, was
unable to estimate how much money
the safe contained.
The Crescent Cafe at 723 Fourteenth
street was entered by burglars early
today, who stole $50 from the cash
register.
Three red-headed young men, armed
with pistols. early yesterday forced
James L. Hepner, night manager of a
lunch room at 1890 H street northeast,
to hand over S57.
At about the same time another trio
of young white men robbed filling
station at Third street and Massachu-
setts avenue of $38, escaping in an auto
mobile.
Thieves About Churches.
These latter robbers are believed by
police to be the same who later took
$50 from Arthur Thomas, night man
ager of the Snappy Gas Station in the
$500 block Of Pennsylvania avenue.
They left the scene in an automobile
which police later found abandoned.
How two coIored men stopped him
with drawn guns in an alley of the 3400
block of Fourteenth street and took $22
was related to police yesterday by Will
liam Clapper, 1900 block of Otis street
Thieves were busy about the churches
yesterday. taking pocketbook contain
ing $3.50 from q pew in st. Matthew's
The purse belonged to Frances Wan
namaker, 1904 Forty-fourth street. A
taxicab driver was robbed of $11 early
yesterday by two colored flares" whom
he picked up at Seventh and N streets
The driver, Lester B. English, 26lO
F street, said he drove the men to
Twenty-third and N streets, where they
produced guns and demanded cash.