Evening star., 1936-11-21
Robbers
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non Memorial Highway. and driven
to lonely stretch between Mount
Vernon and the Richmond Highway.
They we're robbed of s33.75 in cash,
two hunters permits and two rings,
but Mary Elizabeth Shelton saved SIS
hidden in the bosom of her dress and
her sister secreted q diamond ring in
her shoe.
Alter tying up the men, the bandits
planned first to take the girls with
them. The latter however, lay on the
ground and pleaded to be tied up. At
length their captors acquiesced.
As the group walked through the
dark woods from the roadside where
the cars were left, one Of the hold-up
men stumbled, and this morning q
gun he evidently dropped on this oc-
casion was found. Police Immediately
examined it for fingerprints
Except for slight discomfort from
exposure, none Of the four suffered any
injuries. Riggels, however, was struck
with gun on the chin by one of the
bandits when it was found he had not
turned over all his money.
Trio Believed Amateurs.
Metropolitan police at once suspect.
ed the three robbers were the same
trio who Monday night robbed Walter
T. Holt and kidnapped his companion,
Miss Virginia Ash, in Rock Greek Park.
Their descriptions tally. In both
groups there was a man dressed in rid
ing breeches and high leather boots.
Mary Elizabeth Shelton told police
she thought the men were amateur
bandits trying to be tough.
She said this morning that she and
her companions had been halted at
the parking place only four minutes
when the bandit car. later identified as
one stolen in the District earlier in
the evening. drove up beside them.
A short, lightweight bandit got out.
opened the door by Riggels, who sat
in the drivers seat, poked a gun in
his ribs, and said in foreign accent:
This is holdup. Hand over your
wallets and all of your valuables."
. The two couples gave up their pos
sessions. Then the bandit in riding
breeches emerged from his car, dis
playing another gun, and got in back
of Riggels' car with Steele and Mary
Elizabeth Shelton. The foreign ban
dit showed Rigges over from the
drivers seat and started the car.
Taken Past Mount Vernon.
The District car following behind.
driven by the third bandit, the kid
naped four were taken past Mount
Vernon. along the Virginia State
Highway to a lonely spot by the woods
and ordered out.
Here the bandits discovered Riggels
had held out on them and clipped him
with the gun. The couples were told
to walk through the woods by the for
eigner, who said:
mot word out of any one, or you're
going to get shot. haven't shot any.
body in o week"
the bandits took the belts and ties
from the men, made them lie on their
stomachs and trussed them UP. They
gagged them with towels which they
found in the back of Riggels' car.
When they insisted on taking the
girls with them, the Shelton sisters
begged to be left with their compan-
ions and threw themselves prone to
the ground.
Girl First to Free Self.
The bandits held a consultation and
decided to bind the girls as they
wished. To save Mary Elizabeth from
the chill, they took Riggels' overcoat
and threw it over her. She was tied
loosely and was the first to wriggle
loose.
Riggels and his companions turned
and twisted until they were free. They
walked a mile and a half to farm
house to telephone Sheriff Kirby OF
Fairfax County, Va, who notified the
Detective Bureau of the metropolitan
police.
The bandit-driver, the couples told
Kirby and the park police, VASES feet
8 inches tall, weighed about 135 pounds,
wore q dark suit and dark hat. His
front teeth were widely spaced and
overlaid with gold.
The two-gun man who sat in the
back seat of the Riggels car was 6 feet
tall, weighed 180 pounds, wore dark
brown hat and was dressed in brown
lumberjack coat, riding breeches and
knee-high shoes.
The third robber was about feet
z inches tall and wore q dark blue
sweater.
Two bandits, one of whom was
dressed In riding habit, strolled
into the New Hampshire Market, at
1909 T street, last night and robbed
the owner, Mike Armahy, Of $3.50.
They he'd in an automobile. Detec-
tives said they knew one Of the men
involved in the robbery. They broad
cast q lookout last night for the BAN
dts and the car In which they es-
capped,
Burglars last night broke into Abe
Epstein's restaurant, at 421 Eleventh
street, and stole $75 worth of whisky
and cigars, Epstein reported to police.
Police of No. 2 precinct today were
investigating reports of several rob-
berries committed by two colored men
who approached their victims from be-
hind and threw them In the sideuyaIk