Evening star., 1933-01-22
BANDIT SUSPECTS
WILL Be PLACED
IN POLICE LINEUP
Six Held in Pay Roll Robbery
Plot to Be Quizzed in
Berman Shooting.
FIVE SIGN CONFESSIONS
IN H0LD.UP, POLICE SAY
Ecklund Inquest Expected Tuesday
Stumm in Serious Condition.
Guns Still Sought.

eQempted $1,000 Browning Painting Co.
pay roll robbery, in which a paymaster
Of the company was shot to death and
bis assistant seriously wounded, will be
viewed today by witnesses in other re-
cent hold-upS and shooting, it was said
at police headquarters last night.
At the same time, it was said, the
prisoners-f1ve Of whom are reported to
have confessed participation in the plot
will be questioned extensively regard
ing the shooting of Arthur A. Berman,
proprietor of a delicatessen at 1928
Georgia avenue.
Berman, 48-year-old father of four
children, was wounded in gun battle
with two bandits who attempted to hold
him up in his delicateSSen early Thurs
day. He still is in a serious condition
In Garfield Hospital, but. according to
Inspector Frank S. w. Burke, chief Of
detectives, will scrutinize the four white
men under arrest in the attempted pay
roll robbery as soon as he IS sufficient
ty strong.
Confessions Signed.
The men held are:
Claude Myers, %, colored, and Fewell
Workman, %, colored, who are said to
have signed confessions that they shot
the painting company officials; Albert
E Cash, 20, said to have admitted
driving the taxicab in which the gun
men escaped after the shooting; Everett
Blackwell, %, said to have acted as
up; Clyde E. Templeton, 30 said to
have confessed disposing Of one of the
guns used in the shooting, and Oscar
M. Cash, 21, alleged to have disposed
Of the other gun.
All the men except Oscar Cash signed
confessions describing their parts in
the robbery scheme, according to Capt.
Bernard W. Thompson, assistant chief
of detectives. Oscar Cash, brother of
the taxicab driver and brother-in-law
Of Templeton, refused to make any
statement.
At the request of Capt Thompson,
Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDon-
aid refrained from setting a date for
an inquest into the death of the slain
man, Edward Ecklund, so, in order to
give detectives ample opportunity to in
veStigate the prisoners connection, If
any, with other hold-ups and shootings.
1t Is expected, however, that the in
quest will be held Tuesday.
Slugs to Be Compared.
A jury was sworn in over Ecklunds
body yesterday by Deputy Coroner
Christopher j. Murphy The 32-caliber
bullet that killed Ecklund, piercing his
heart and liver and imbedding itself in
his backbone, was removed by DR..
Murphy during an autopsy.
The slug, said to have been fired by
Myers, was turned over to Lieut. John
H. Fowler, police ballistics expert, for
comparison with the bullet removed
from Berman. 1t also will be compared
with slugs taken from the bodies of
victims of other recent shootings.
The other wounded man, Harry
Stumm, 48, still is in a critical condi-
tiun in Providence Hospital. Shot in
the abdomen, he underwent an emer-
gency operation Immediately after his
arrival at the hospital. but the bullet
was not recovered. Hence the police
have no way of definitely establishing
which Of the colored men shot him.
Stumm was to have succeeded Ecklund
as paymaster as the latter had re-
signed.
Both Myers and Workman, in the
confessions outlined by Capt. Thomp-
son, admitted firing at the two men,
but insisted they did not know which
q the two men they shot. Detectives
believe. however, that Workman fred
HE shot that wounded Stumm.
FAN to Find Guns,
Thus far the guns used in the shoot
eng have not been found, but detectives
Under the direction of 6ergt. H. K.
Wilson, chief of the Homicide SQUAD.
ere continuing their search for them.
workman, according to the confessions
given out by Capt. Thompson, used a
.25-caliber automatic and Myers the
.32-caliber revolver.
Work OF the detectives who handled
the case was praised last night by
inspector Burke, who termed it "the
sllckest cleanup I've seen in 80 years
on the police force" Among the de-
tectives who worked on the case, be-
ddes Thompson, Fowler and Wilson,
Sre Sergts. John c. Dalglish, Jerry Fla
eerty, George Darnall, Elmer Lewis,
Walter S. Beck and Dennis j. Murphy.
Ecklund and Stumm, both residents
OF Brooklyn, headquarters of the paint
ing company, were shot about noon
Thursday as they walked from their
rooming house at 309 New Jersey ave-
hue southeast to the new House Office
Building, Where the pay envelopes were
to have been distributed.
Near the corner Of New Jersey ave-
nue. and c street southeast two COL
ored men ordered them to stick 'em
uP 4A0lhillS Ille CCulIlldI1O JUNO,
Stumm and Ecklund walked on. Then
the gunner opened fire and, leaving
Ecklund and Stumm lying wounded on
the sidewalk, ran down New Jersey
avenue. leaped into a cab and were
driven away.
The men held by police gave the
following addresses:
Albert and Oscar Cash, 4500 block
of Ninth street; Workman, 100 block
of D street southeast; Templeton, 4500
block of Ninth street; Myers, 1900 block
of Fourteenth street, and Blackwell,
100 block of Fourth street southeast.