Evening star., 1937-10-04
Furniture Store Looted of
,270 in Series of Week
End Burglaries.

Bandits, burglars and sneak thieves
harassed Washington with a far r-fung
of activities over the week
end. police reported today.
Miss Manelia Redd was playing
bridge with guests in her apartment
at l434 Harvard street when burglar
slipped into the place unheard and
took the purses and wraps of women
guests from a bed room.
The pocketbook of Alice Joy Web
ster, 26o5 Monroe street northeast,
contained about SO. Anothef guest,
Manine Amidon. 1905 Illinois avenue,
lost an annual railroad pass and other
effects, while the purse Of the hostess
contained 81 The thief had entered
by cutting rear screen.
The same soft-footed burglar. ap-
parently. visited the home of Matilda
Clippenger. 1907 Columbia road. and
took purses of three guests. Elsie
Gummer, 917 Sixth street, had 81;
Freda and Cada OckershauSen. 1908
Connecticut avenue, lost. respectively,
SIS and SO. in addition to theit pocket
books. A window had been forced.
Two white men waylaid cab drivers
early today. robbed them of small
sums and left in the cabs.
Two Are "Strong Armed"
Guy T. Bolton, 1882 North Capitol
street. said his taxi was hailed by the
pair at Fourteenth and P streets. The
passengers had themselves driven to a
point on Foxhall road. where they
made Bolton get out, after robbing
him of So The cab later was found
at Thirty-sixth and M streets.
Two men of the same description
got into a cab driven by George H.
Odon of $50 North Carolina avenue,
in the 1900 block of Pennsylvania
avenue. He drove them to the 3700
block on Calvert street. where they
robbed him of 81 at gun point and
took his cab. Police we're looking for
the cab.
William A. Custard. 1904 Reservoir
road. reported that he was robbed of
STAT by two colored men who strong
armed" him as he was walking along
Reservoir road between Thirty-second
street and Wisconsin avenue
Another strong arm squad oper-
ated on Mike A. Hiltz. 40, of 1853
Princeton road. as he walked through
an alley between Seventh street and
Massachusetts, avenue. He vas robbed
of s22.50 by three colored men, who
stopped him to ask for cigarette.
James F. Loflin, l8. manager of a
filling station at lexington place and
@ street northeast, was held up by
three white men. They too k s25 from
the cash register and locked him in
the wash room. A relief manager re-
leased him.
S1,270 Taken From Store.
Sam April a liquor dealer, dis
covered on his return from trip that
his home at 1000 Klingle road had
been entered some time since Sep
tember 80 and robbed Of S2l0. He
said Sis was in bureau drawer and
s95 in q pocketbook.
Richard G. Mcmahon. general man.
ager of the w. B. Moses Furniture
Co.. reported burglary of $40 in
cash and $1,000 in checks from the
money box. Entrance had been
gained by forcing lock.
Helen c. Hofberg, storekeeper at AZ
T street, reported white man held
her up and took 81 from the cash
register. Ned X. Croft, proprietor of
q beer parlor at 207 Third street
southeast, also was held up by lone
white man and robbed Of So.
A passer-by frightened away two
men who had held up John w. Nc
Dusky, 1928 Fifteenth street, on @
street between Eighteenth and Nine
teenth streets.
Charles H. Helmick. 54ll Illinois
avenue, was held up and robbed of
his car, which he had parked about
a half mile south Of the Fourteenth
Street Bridge on Memoris highway.
Valuable antique jewelry was among
the loot of burglars who rarlsacked the
home of Mrs. Aubrey Broaddus, 1901
Military road, during the family's ab-
sence over the week end
Two passers-by saw two tolored men
break n glass at the store OF David
Felman, 4418 Eighteenth street, early
today and seize three quarts of whisky
from the showcase. The witnesses
gave chase. but the thieves escaped.
Raymond johnson, 272 Ninth street
northeast, reported $104 stolen from
q dresser drawer, and Samuel Gold
stein, 1903 Kenyon street. reported a
burglar who cut q screen and broke
. glass took thins aad jewelry
VoFth 1850.