Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-02
BANDIT Staying
PROBE COMPLETED
CoIored Man Killed and
Three Whites Taken by -
Police in HoId.Up.

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and I figured he'd think something
was up and call the police"
Wall was right. Salkeld and Po-
liceman Robert J. Tompkins were sit
ting in a fourth precinct radio car
| near Pennsylvania avenue and Sew
| enth street, discussing several earlier
| hold-ups. when an automobile pulled
| up beside them. The driver told them
he thought the filling station was
being held up.
Trio Drive to Station.
Picking up Policeman w. E.
Bracey. who was patrolling his beat
nearby, Salkeld and Tompkins drove
to the station. Beside one of the
gasoline pumps they found a machine
standing. with motor running. Null
len was behind the steering wheel
While Salkeld crept toward the
, station, Tompkins walked up to Null
len and commanded:
Get your hands up"
| Mullen drew a pistol TOmpkins
| damned his revolver againSt the back
! OF Mullens neck and ordered him to
drop it." Mullen obeyed.
Salkeld, meanwhile, had sneaked up
to the window of the station and was
peering inside. He saw Sweeney
leaning over the desk, searching its
| drawers.
Smashing the window with the
butt OF his gun, Salkeld shouted:
"All right, boys-throw EN- up and
| come on out
Sweeney ducked and scurried to-
| ward the stairs leading to the base
, ment. AS he disappeared down the
steps, Young suddenly emerged from
| the stairway with a gun in his hand
Drop that gun and come out with
your hands up" Salkeld called.
Like hell l will was the reply
| Try and get me-
With that. the colored man started
down the stairs.
Fired Through Window.
Salkeld reached through the hole in
the window and started pulling the
trigger of his revolver. All four shots
hit their mark. and Youngs body
hurtled down the steps.
The policeman strobe into the sta
ton and standing at the head of the
| stairs, yelled:
Come on out with your hands up
Only Wall responded.
When Sweeney did not follow Wall
up the steps. Salkeld tossed a tear
gas bomb into the basement. A few
moments later Sweeney staggered up
the stairs, with tears streaming down
bis cheeks and begging Salkeld not
to shoot.
Lowery meanwhile had crawled
| through window of the basement.
AS he clambered to his feet he was
confronted by Tompkins who ordered
him to surrender. He offered no re-
Sistance.
| BY this time Lieut.. Lloyd E. Kelly
chief of the gas squad, had reached
the station. Downing a gas mask. he
went into the basement. where he
found Young lying dead. He also
found two guns, discarded by Sweeney
and Lowery after Salkeld threw the
tear gas bomb down the steps.
Two Make Confessions.
Taken to headquarters for question
ing, Sweeney and Lowery confessed
their parts in the hold-up, police re-
ported. but Mullen insisted he had
gone to the station to purchase gaso-
| line.
A short time later. however, Mullen
along with other members of the
gang, was identified by witnesses in
three other hold-ups. They also were
said to answer the descriptions of
the men involved in several other
| robberies
Joseph McVearry, victim of one of
the hold-ups, was stricken with a
heart attack at headquarters as he
! picked Sweeney and LoWery as the
men who had robbed him of $50 in
his filling station at Maryland avenue
and Fourteenth street northeast. Re-
vlVed by Emergency Hospital physi-
clans, he declared Lowery had struck
him on the head with a revolver butt
during the hold-up.
The other robbery victims who
Identified members of the gang were
| Thomas r. Veile. night manager of
a filling station at First ana K streets
northeast. who said he was hit on the
head with a gun butt and robbed of
$40, and Walter Sabine, manager of
a flower shop at 804 Seventeenth
| street, who said he was robbed of $50
Praise for Policemen.
| Capture of the bandits brought the
policemen praise from Melvin c.
Hazen. chairman of the Board of Dis
trict Commissioners, who announced
they would be given formal COM
mendations tomorrow. 1T was a fine
piece OF work. Commissioner Hazen
said.
| Meanwhile, members of the robbery
squad were endeavoring to establish
the bandits connection, if any, with
other unsolved hold-ups, including the
one in which Angus Burch, proprietor
OF Colmar Manor barbecue stand
was shot to death several weeks ago.
| Young. police said. served five years
OF six-year sentence imposed on him
for killing Sister Cephius Becker
known as the "angel of Providence
Hospital" in 1925.
Salkeld's career on the police force
has been a spectacular one. Several
years ago he killed a crazed colored
man who previously had disarmed two
other officers, and about two years
ago. he was slightly wounded in gun
battle with man who had just killed
another policeman He also has par
ticipated in several other gun battles
| uith crirpipo1S