Evening star., 1934-09-26
us. OFFICER SHOT,;
SIX MEN ARE HELD
Revenue Agent Is Wounded
in Raid on Still -"Break"
Due Today.

With six men in custody in Upper
Marlboro in connection with the shoot
iIg late yesterday of a revenue officer
while he was raiding still near Forest
vile, Md, Federal agents expressed
belief late today they would break"
the case before nightfall.
Meanwhile the Federal officers and
Washington police abandoned efforts
to link the shooting of Revenue Agent
Cyrus Thomas to the wounding last
night of Motor Cycle Policeman S. T.
Creech, who was shot as he attempted
to stop a speeding automobile on PENN
sylvania Avenue Bridge.
Three Brothers Held.
Three of the men under arrest
are brothers-John, Edward and Kelly
Barnes, colored, all of the vicinity Of
Forestville One of the trio was ar
rested at the still by Thomas and
Revenue Agent L. j. Nay, who con-
Quoted the raid, but he escaped after
Thomas was shot. Two of the other
men are colored and one white, Wal
lace Armstrong.
Capt. Bernard w. Thompson, as
SlSIdIll CIlltl Vi w OOll uCICIGlNCS,
announced this afternoon a blood
stained car found abandoned near
Oxon HILL Md, last night had been
definitely identified as the car occu-
pied by two colored men with whom
Creech engaged in running gun bat
tie along Pennsylvania avenue SOUTH
east. Creech was struck in the left
shoulder, but he said he felt confident
he had wounded one of the occupants
Of the fleeing machine.
Thomas and Nay raided the still
about pm. yesterday. They had ar
rested two colored men, but one Of
them broke away while the other was
being handcuffed to a tree Thomas
chased the fleeing man, then Nay
heard three pistol shots and the re-
port of a shotgun.
He found Thomas lying in a thicket
wounded in the stomach He and the
remaining prisoner placed the wound
ed man in an automobile, then the
other colored man escaped. Thomas
was treated by DR.. James I. Boyd of
Forestville and removed to Providence
Hospital here.
Creech was patrolling Pennsylvania
avenue southeast, on the south side
of the bridge, when he noticed a car
occupied by two colored men speeding
| toward the bridge He started in pur-
suit and motioned for the driver to
halt.
Firing at Officer Began.
Just as they entered the bridge the
/ fnrrod Tranph n tho Pilrh
made U turn and started back
into the rear seat and began firing at
| the policeman, who drew his revolver
and fired back.
During the gun battle one bull
let struck Creech in the shoulder
and another struck the headlight of
! his motor Policeman Raymond V.
| Sinclair, champion arrester Of speed
| ers, heard the shots and joined Creech
| in the chase, but both officers lost the
| faster-traveling automobile.
Later in the evening John L. Pilker-
ton of Oxon Hill reported his car
stolen and another. a bloodstained
one, left in its place. The rear win
dow of the abandoned car had been
shot out and police we're positive it
was the same car at which Creech
had fired. The car was towed to
Washington and held by police this
afternoon.
| The tag number on the car pursued
by Officer Creech, who was removed
to Emergency Hospital, was said by
police to have been registered in the
name of Walter E. Hall. 308 v street
northeast. Police located Hall in
Brentwood and said he had told them
/ he had sold the car. He said he had
removed the license plates and had
them at home, but when he failed to
produce them he was held by police
pending further investigation.
Experts Checking Prints.
Fingerprint experts, brought in by
/ w. A. Heddens, acting assistant su-
perintendent Of enforcement Of the
| Internal Revenue Bureau, who organ
lied the man hunt, were busy this aft
| ernoon checking the prints they found
around the still.
Squads of agents have been called
into the case from Washington and
Baltimore and the countryside around
Forestville fairly bristled with ''reve-
nooers." The Washington squad.
headed by L. G. Mitchell, spent prac-
tically the whole night beating about
the swamp country in search of the
moonshiners
Seized in the raid, one of ''Ie largest
hauls in this vicinity since prohibi-
ton was repealed. we're 1000 gallons
of mash, a 600-gallon still, so gallons
of whisky and 15-horsepower steam
boiler.