Evening star., 1937-01-09
C0L0RED BANDITS
STAB THREE MEN;
|. THREE CABS TAKEN
Depredations of Pair Cover
Wide Area in Three Hours
This Morning.
VICTIM FOUND DAZED
| LYING BEHIND TAXICAB
Liquor Store Delivery Man Loses
$50 Cash in One of Several
Hold.ups.

A minor "crime wave" in which
three men were stabbed and robbed
and three taxicabs stolen, was created
by pair of fast-moving colored hood.
lums whose depredations covered q
wide area during a three-hour period
early today.
One Of the stabbing victims-James
Harmon, 80, Of 42lO Twelfth place
northeast-was taken to Gallingcr
Hospital with serious wound in the
abodmen after he was found lying in
the back Of an abandoned taxicab.
Semi-conscious when police located
the car in the first block of Fenton
street. Harmon was unable to tell what
had preceded the assault. 1t was not
learned he had been knitted until he
was taken to the second precinct for
questioning.
Taxi Reported Stolen.
The taxi in which Harmon was
found. about 2:15 am. was reported
stolen shortly after midnight. The
driver, George Thomas, colored, 1916
Twelfth street, was stabbed in the
thigh as two colored men threw him
from the cab in an alley in the rear
of the 100 block Of North Capitol
street.
Thomas told police the colored men
hailed him at First and K streets and
told him to drive to the alley. After
throwing him out, they drove of. At
Sibley Hospital, Thomas wound was
said to be mot serious"
An hour before Thomas cab was
stolen, the same two bandits are be-
lieved to have stabbed and robbed
Cleveland L. Burton, AZ, colored, also
taking his taxi.
Burton, who lives at 915 Fourth
street southeast. said the men hired
him at Eleventh and r streets and di-
rected him to drive to Cedar court.
En- route, Burton said, he was seized
from behind, stabbed in the back and
robbed of his pocketbook before being
put out. He suffered a superficial
wound in the back.
About 1880 am. two colored men,
whose description fitted those in the
other cases, hired Lawyer White, so.
colored, 1411 Sixth street, at New
Jersey avenue and o streets and told
him to drive them to Cedar court.
White reported that when he ar
rived at the address one of the men
held him from behind while the other
went through his pockets, taking
about 81. White said the bandits sped
away after pushing him from his taxi.
HoId-ups Reported
Several hold-ups were among other
crimes reported during the past "a
hours.
Raymond Starks, 80, colored, deliv.
eryman for the Burkas liquor store,
1886 Wisconsin avenue, said he was
robbed of $50 in cash and two checks
totaling s24 while making delivery.
Starks said some one called the store
about Z o'clock last night and asked
that two quarts Of liquor be delivered
to an address in the 1900 block OF
Massachusetts avenue. specifying that
he bring change for $40.
In front of the address, Starks said
two colored men attacked him with
their fists, broke his glasses and then
robbed him.
Robbed Of Pocketb0ok.
Robert F. Terry. 1852 L street
northeast, reported he was robbed Of
his pocketbook. containing $3.50, by
| two colored women who grappled with
him in the 1900 block of Ninth street
shortly before midnight.
Other victims were Mrs. Virginia j..
Rose, 1919 R street, whose pocketbook.
containing 81, was snatched by COLI
ored girl, and Carrie Ford. 1856 Car
rollburg street southeast, whose purse.
which held $3.50, was taken by two
| colored men.