Evening star., 1936-12-30
REED NOW SOUGHT
IN NEW ENGLAND
Friend of Matthews Case
Suspect Nabbed in Raid
at Boston.
sy STAT Correspondent OF The Star.

An Intensive search lOT Wulldul D.
Reed, 25-year-old alleged killer. was
being made throughout New England
today following the capture in Boston
last night of a youth alleged to have
served as an accomplice in several
crimes laid to the young Montgomery
County desperate.
A Tip" unearthed by local officers
led to q raid upon hotel in the
Massachusetts, city. but Reed could
not be found. Richard p. Stockton.
~, sought in two robberies attributed
to Reed, was apprehended in the lobby,
however. and police believe the latter
Is in hiding nearby.
Meanwhile, it was said that Reed,
who is being hunted by police and
Federal agents for two murders in
Maryland and West Virginia and a
number of other crimes in both those
States and Virginia, is also wanted in
connection with a -year-old kid
naping and attempted extortion at
Richmond, Va.
At the instance of Department of
Justice agents. United States Com
missioner Needham c. Turnage at
Washington issued warrants today
charging Reed, Lawrence Gingell, 20,
and War Joseph Kirby, 81, with kid
naping William E. Brown, Washing
ton taxicab driver, on November %
and taking him to Richmond. De-
tainers on this charge will be filed
with Montgomery County police. but
Federal agents will not try to get the
defendants away from Maryland au-
thorities, they said today.
Taken in Raid.
A dispatch from the Associated
Press in Richmond stated that Justice
Department sleuths seek Reed as
suspect in the futile attempt to extort
$500 from George N Davis, cashier
Of a Lewisburg, w. Va, bank, on
August l, 1882. Two men were cap
tured and sentenced to l8-year terms.
A third escaped.
The arrest of Stockton came within
q few hours after G-men Joined in
the search for Reed, who has been
linked by statements of two confessed
accomplices to two murders two kid
napings and robberies, thefts of sew
eral automobiles and a hold-up since
he was released in October from the
Maryland House of Correction, where
he was confined for HOUSEKEEPING.
Detective Sergt. Theodore Vollten,
Police Sergt. lie Roy Rodgers, both of
Montgomery County. and a Federal
agent led squad of 25 Boston police
In raid on the hotel and took
Stockton into custody when they
found him in the lobby. Earlier in
the night Cambridge apartment
house was raided in another futile
effort to capture their quarry.
Known As Friends.
Stockton, local authorities say, is
known to be a close friend of Reed
and Is wanted as a suspected accom-
plice of Reed in the hold-up of
taxi driver in Takoma Park last
month and in connection with the
hold-up of w. c. Giddings, Burnt
Mills merchant, several years ago.
Giddings suffered superficial wound
when fired upon during the robbery.
1t is said that Stockton will be
brought back to Rockville by Sergts.
Rodgers and Vollten when they return
from their hunt in New England.
The search for Reed was spurred by
two youths under arrest in connection
with the murder of Elwood Matthews,
well-to-do Montgomery County farm
er, who was robbed and slain Novem-
ber 13, and w. Earle Dollman, Phila-
delphia salesman, who was killed after
being robbed near Sutton, w. Va, on
Thanksgiving day.
Gingell is held here, and Kirby, un-
der arrest in West Virginia, have
linked Reed with both slayings, police
say. In addition, officers declare,
they have connected him with the
kidnapping and robbery of West Vir-
ginia bank cashier last month, the
kidnapping of Brown, theft of cars and
. hold-up at Oakland, Md.
All followed the murder of Matthews,
police said.
Sought in Extortion.
Capt. H. B. Nicholas, superintendent
OF the Virginia State Police, also told
the Associated Press at Richmond
Reed is "unquestionably" being sought
by Federal agents in connection with
the Davis case there in 1882.
Davis and r. K. Robertson, super
lntendent of an orphanage at Lewis
burg, w. Va, were picked up in the
West Virginia town by two armed men
who forced them to drive to Rich
.mond. A companion of the abductors
followed in another car
, Forcing q promise of $500 from
the 65-year-old Davis in return for
his life and freedom, the extortionists
after an all-night drive arrived in
Richmond and led Davis into the First
and Merchants National Bank.
While he was drawing the ransom
money bank official, noticing Da-
Wis highly nervous state, became sus-
picious. He called detectives, and the
.abductors were seized before they
could draw firearms.
The pair, Harley Curry, member Of
Q prominent West Virginia family,
and William Craft, were sentenced to
18-year prison terms. The third man,
who followed them to Richmond, they
named as Harvey Guthrie. This man
Is believed to be william Reed, the
Associated Press said.