Evening star., 1936-12-03
GANG TRIO T0FACE
LINEUP TONIGHT
"Boots and Spurs" Youths
Linked to a. Crimes by
Alleged Confessions.

Already linked with IA crimes
through confessions made late yester-
day. according to Detective Chief
Bernard w. Thompson, three members
OF the so-called boots and spurs
gang will be placed in q special line
up at police headquarters tonight in
an effort to identify them with other
robberies and hold-ups.
Victims Of crimes specified by the
youths in statements made to police
will view the bandits to make positive
Identification before the cases are
taken to court.
The trio-William N. Beck, 21; Jack
Joseph Kurz, 10, and Paul Leon Bur-
ger. 19-were hazy on the dates and
addresses of many of the places they
confessed to robbing, Inspector
Thompson said, in pointing out they
may have overlooked some other
crimes.
Depredations Begun in July.
The depredations, police said, started
last July when Burger and Beck say
they held up a High Ice Cream Co.
store In the $500 block of Conduit
road. All three allegedly confessed
to robbing q store on Marlboro Pike
during the Summer and holding up
couple in parked car on Hams
Point, taking the mans watch. Ac-
cording to Detective Chief Bernard w.
Thompson, the trio also admitted rob-
bing a colored man Of his watch in
the southwest section.
After an interval OF several months
the youths, police said, again became
active November Is, when they abb
Quoted Pvt. Frank Ayers, Fort Myer
sentry, whose automatic pistol, am
munition and spurs were stolen.
The spurs, police said, became part
Of the outfit of Beck, who wore boots
and riding breeches during the forays,
and the Army automatic was found in
possession of Burger and Kurz when
they were arrested at Kernesville,
N. c., last Saturday.
After the sentry abduction, Inspector
Thompson said the youths told him
they held up Walter Holt and Virginia
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Hollis machine. Then Thompson said
they went to North Carolina, and on
the road between Marion and Morgan
town robbed a doctor of $40 and tied
him up in an abandoned shack.
Youths Later Movements.
From then on, according to the con-
fession police said they made, the
youths movements follow:
Burned Hollis automobile and drove
the doctors car 100 miles farther
South, where they held up and robbed
q couple in a Tennessee car. Locked
the couple in the rumble seat OF the
doctors machine and returned to
Washington in the couples automobile.
Then followed the 1852 hold-up of
the New Hampshire Market, for which
they were indicted. and the robbery Of
two Fairfax couples in parked cars
below Mount Vernon.
The Tennessee car was driven into
the Potomac on the Memorial Highway
about a mile and a half below the
Highway Bridge and the bandits
headed North in the machine of their
latest victims.
At New Bedford. Mass, q man who
resisted their hold-up attempt was
beaten on the head with guns and the
youths left for Philadelphia. There
Beck discarded his riding outfit and
all three bought new clothes The tags
on the Virginia car were replaced with
New Jersey license plates stolen from
a car near Camden as the trio again
| started South
Failing to stop in Washington. the
bandits continued on to Kernersville
where Beck left his companions when
they started fight that led to Their
arrest. Beck was caught when he re-
turned here.