Evening star., 1937-04-07
stewart. "And be damn quick about

While the cab sped to the hospital
the three tossed out the gun, a .38-
caliber revolver, which William Knight
is said to have carried in q shoulder
holster. This holster detected Caton's
shot and perhaps saved the youths
life.
AS the taxi roared by the White
House, Park Policeman A. D. Cooke.
on duty at the gate, felt something hit
his foot He looked down and picked
up q .38 bullet. He looked further and
found two more slugs.
Cooke hailed cab and followed
the fugitive car, which was parked in
front of Emergency when he overlook
it. In Stewards cab was Thiebolt, who
is said to have told the whole story Of
the nights escapade at Cookies first
question. Cooke turned him over to
third precinct police and went into
the hospital to check up on the Knight
brothers, who were treated at Emer-
gency before William was sent to GAL
Nnger.
BY morning the three not only had
confessed their parts In the hold-up,
police reported, but Thiebald had told
OF a SIS robbery of grocery store IN
the 1900 block Of Calvert street which
he had engineered before he collected
his friends for the High job.
Reform School Meeting.
The three met in reform school,
William Knight said, and spent their
idle time talking about the big jobs"
they would pull" when they were re-
leased Before last night they had CO.
operated in a few minor housebreak-
ings, police were told, but they looked
on the ice cream store hold-up as the
first step toward major career OF
crime
William Knight, whose injuries are
minor. enjoyed lugubrious joke this
morning with Capt. Richard H. Mans
field, who remarked when he found
that the youth had arrived at the
scene of the hold-up with $l3 IN his
trousNs:
YOU ought to have thrown one Of
those dollars away"
"Yeh, I thought OF that" was the
answer.
Thiebolt, who is said to have an
nounced to tenth precinct police that
he was "the Don Juan Dillinger,"
went astray as child when he robbed
the cash register of butcher shop,
his aunt, Mrs. Regina Holford, who
traded there, said.
He was an orphan and Mrs. Holford
fa1f fnr him Sho cold HIT Chp
had eight children OF her own and de-
cided at last that the only way to
peace from her nephew was to turn
him over to police.
Thiebolt, who worked occasionally
as house painter, had been out Of
reform school only four months when
he met the knights last night In their
third-floor apartment. The brothers
live there with their mother.
It was the first hold-up Mrs.
Groves had ever experienced, although
the store, at which she has worked only
two weeks, has been robbed four
times She had little sleep last night,
but she planned to return to work
today.
Says Hold-ups Confessed.
Capt Keck said the Knight broth
ers and Thiebolt had admitted par
ticipation in hold-ups of an Atlantic
& Pacific grocery at 35l9 Connecticut
avenue, Piggly-Wiggly at 3515 Con-
necticut avenue and Sanitary gro
cery in Clarendon, Va.
The Knight brothers, Keck said, ad-
mitted holding up District Grocery
Store at 4449 Connecticut avenue,
Shell filling station at 1900 Connecti-
cut avenue, another Shell station at
$500 Connecticut avenue and Sani-
tary at 1924 Fourteenth street.
All four youths, Keck said. con-
fessed participating in hold-ups OF
Shell station at Georgia avenue and
Piney Branch road and the Upshur
street ice cream store. In the hold
up last night, Keck said, Sands told
police he waited outside.
Thiebolt and Lewis Knight, Keck
said, held up Sanitary at 5067 Con-
necticut avenue, while William Knight
and Thiebolt paired in holding up
Sanitary on Benning road northeast.
The knight brothers and Sands CO.
operated, Keck said, in two other
Sanitary hold-ups, in Virginia-one
in Clarendon and one in Del Ray.
Keck said the Knight brothers and
Thiebolt also admitted they were to-
gether when they broke into the At
lantic & Pacific store before holding
up the ice cream establishment.
Says Purchases Admitted.
Simpson, Keck stated, admitted
buying cigarettes, tobacco, gum and
candy from the youths.
Keck said the knight brothers told
him they broke out of the Industrial
Home School one night and robbed a
Sanitary on Wisconsin avenue Of