Evening star., 1934-08-27
HOLD-UP VICTIMS
TO SEE SUSPECTS
One of Four Men Captured
in Raid Is Escaped
Convict.

Twenty-eight victims of recent hold
ups AND robberies will be brought to
the police lineup at headquarters to-
night in an effort to identify four gang
suspects arrested with three woman
companions in Anacostia early yes
terday after one of the women became
frightened at a threat of gun play
and ran screaming into the street near
the corner of Nichols avenue and
Talbert street southeast.
One suspect, Clarence Back, %, was
identified by flngerprint records as one
of three prisoners who escaped from
Lorton Reformatory August IL. Police
said Back was armed with a pistol
when arrested and had in his posses
sion stolen sedan in which was found
a sawed-off shotgun.
The other three suspects were John
Ciccone, 25, of Brooklyn, N. Y; Alfred
M. Ciuffreda, 20, said to rent the
apartment in which the suspects were
arrested, and Harry Lee Berry,
soldier stationed at Fort Meade, Md.
All were held for investigation, as
were three women describing them
selves as Myrtle E. Moy, "a, and Marie
F. Burke, %, both of Baltimore, and
Thelma Cash, Is, of the 1900 block
of Talbert street northeast.
Woman Runs Into Street.
Police were told that one of the
women became hysterical and ran into
the street after a fight between the
men during which a gun was drawn
by a former prisoner who fled Lorton
with Back. The latter man escaped
before Policemen C. D. Adams and
r. E. Davis arrived in a scout car
from No. IL precinct in response to
complaints from residents of the
neighborhood.
The two Baltimore women, police
were told, were brought from that
city Sunday by Ciccone and Berry
In an expensive automobile bearing
New York tags and suspected of being
while they checked its ownership.
The automobile in Backs posses
sion, police said, was stolen Friday
from Cornelia P. Mayo while parked
in front of her home at 1913 Thirtieth
street.
Tries to Hurt Officer.
Back was sitting in this car with
Miss Moy and Miss Burke when the
officers arrived. Adams arrested the
three and drove the car to No. IL
precinct. Arriving there, when the
officer walked around to open the side
door, Beck showed the car into re-
verse and tried to back it over him.
The machine rolled up over the curb
and as it did SO Back allegedly reached
for gun.
Adams covered him, however, and
took the three into the station house.
Meanwhile Policeman Davis went to
an apartment near the corner of
Nichols avenue and Talbert street,
where he arrested the other four
and brought them to the precinct. The
women were booked and sent to the
House of Detention.
Police believe the third member of
the trio which broke Lorton August
IL was with the party yesterday. A
lookout was broadcast for two men,
both armed, and two women, travelling
in a dark-bodied coupe" The men are
believed to be the escaped Lorton con-
victs.
Young Texans.
In today's lineup at headquarters
also will be the three heavily armed
young Texans who were captured in
L-4f,.
urday night after headquarters de-
tectives beat them to the draw"
One of the youths, who said he was
Robert Lanier Anderson, 81, has been
identified as Hubert Hulen of Gle
burne, Tex, and is wanted at Waco
for jail-breaking, kidnapping and high
way robbery, according to an Asso-
cited Press dispatch from Waco.
Hulen also is wanted at Fort Worth
and other places.
Ranger Capt. D. E. Hamer and
deputies from Tarrant County were
reported ready to leave for Washing
ton to return the prisoners to Texas.
The other two of this trio gave their
names as Linden F. Boyle, 81, and
Roy J. Moreland, Is, both of Fort
Worth. They were taken, along with
a small arsenal, three days after they
arrived in town from the West.
Inspector Frank S. w. Burke, chief
Of detectives, said he was convinced
the three Texans had pulled" no jobs
here, although they had come East
with that intention. The detective
chief expressed the opinion they were
caught before they had time to get
the lay of the land.