The Washington times., 1936-05-08

Cash entered the taxi and drove
to New Jersey Avenue and D
Street.
Shortly after IL noon the pay
masters, Einar Ecklund and Harry
Stumm, both Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
walked from the door Of 800 New
Jersey Ave. They were met by
Workman and Myers, who had
donned overalls as q disguise.
Hand over that payroll"
Workman and Myers barked,
menacing Ecklund and Stumm
with the guns.
Stumm laughed, saying:
81 haven't got any payroll"
He tried to push past Workman.
At the same moment Myers re-
volver blasted Ecklund to the side
walk. Workman showed Stumm
off balance, and the paymaSter
fell into the gutter as the auto
matte beat out q Staccato Of four
shots in rapid succession. Eek
lund was dead; Stumm was seri-
ouSly wounded.
Blackwell had signalled Cash as
soon as the paymasters started
from the New Jersey Avenue ad-
dress. Cash drove up just as the
guns had quoted. AS previously
arranged, Workman and Myers.
training their weapons on Cash,
brought the cab to stop. They
leaped inside and drove rapidly
away.
Speeding through q maze Of al
leys and side streets, the taxi
reached Seventh and D Streets
Southwest, where Workman and
Myers Invested themselves Of their
khaki overallS and threw away one
Of the guns.
Originally it had been planned
to go at once to Workman'S apart.
ment, where Blackwell was to have
reported and the proceeds Of the
robbery split four ways. Since no
money had been taken from the
paymasters, this idea was aban-
doned, and Cash drove directly to
Myers apartment on Fourteenth
Street.
Leaving the two colored men
there, Cash drove on alone to q
bootleg establishment at Four
tenth and T Streets, where he
had an appointment with his
brother, Oscar, and friend
named Clyde Templeton.
Over a few glasses Of whisky,
Cash related the story Of the at
tempted holdup. With the adjura-
ton, Get rid Of this" Cash gave
Templeton the automatic which
Workman had used.
Oscar was chosen to make O
survey Of the lay Of the land. He
agreed to telephone Templeton
later at a gas station at Georgia
Avenue and Piney Branch Road,
Northwest.
Lose Nerve
Evidently police had lost no
time in tracing ownership Of the
getaway cab. When Oscar called
Templeton and Albert at the
Georgia Avenue gas station he
warned:
Don't go to the house. The
law has been there"
Templeton and Oscar thought
they should take counsel with q
lawyer. They hired q cab and
stopped en- route at Eighth and
Buchanan. Streets, Northwest,
where Templeton threw Cash's
gun into an alley. After q con-
ference with their lawyer, the two
men felt the need Of stimulantS.
They were taken into custody at
a bootlegger's.
At about the same time, Cash
walked into the Sixth precinct sta
ton. He said that two colored
men had held him up at New
JreSey Avenue that noon and
forced him to drive them to Rock
vile, Md. There, he said, he was
robbed and forced from the cab.
According to Cash, the colored
men had driven off and he had
walked to Washington.
Suspicious because Cash had
walked all the way to Precinct 8
when he could have told his story
to any Of scores Of policemen or
at three station houses which he
must have passed on his way, po-
lice gave Cash a thorough grilling.
The taxi man broke down, confess
ing his part in the robbery plan
and naming his accomplices.