Evening star., 1938-01-18
POLICE INTENSITY
PETTY CRIME WAR
Many Officers to Put in Ex-
ira Time at Night, Maj.
Brown Reveals.


The Police Department Is taking
extra precautions" against an out
break of petty crime in Washington
by requiring many policemen to put
in extra time at night, Maj. Ernest
w. Brown, superintendent of police,
said today.
His statement followed reports to
police of four new hold-ups and %
house -breakings, urse-snatchings and
petty larcenies during the last "a
hours. Maj. Brown declined to re-
veal details of the police drive.
Meanwhile. Inspector Bernard, w.
Thompson, chief of detectives. said
he expected further investigation of
the 40 bandit suspects who were pa
raded before $50 recent robbery VIC
Tins at police headquarters last night
IN the largest lineup of recent years,
would lead to solution of total of so
or more recent hold-ups.
Twenty cases were cleared up last
night when IL bandits, some accused
in series Of hold-ups, were identified
by their victims.
Expressing extreme pleasure at the
large turnout for the lineup last
night. Inspector Thompson said such
cooperation by the public in the
police war or crime was of vital i'm
portance in breaking up organized
bandit gangs
Blames Transient "Bums."
He said the wave Of robberies re-
ported during the last "a hours gave
little evidence of organized criminal
activity, but were mostly petty thefts,
apparently due to seasonal influx of
transient "bums" en- route to Florida.
One Of last nights victims, Fred
M. Miller. 1925 Twenty-first street
NV. was forced into an automobile
by two white men, who drove him to
Rock Creek Park. under the Calvert
Street Bridge, and beat him and
robbed him of $l3. Mr.. Miller was
not seriously hurt. He told police the
bandits kidnapped him while he was
walking in the rear of his home.
A huge cOlored man was repulsed,
screaming, by blast of tear gas from
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tempted to snatch the purse of Mrs.
H. C. Burrus. %. as she was walking
last night from grocery store to her
trailer home on River road, just over
the District line in Montgomery
County, Md.
Mrs. Burrus said the man appeared
10 be tramp" He snatched at her
arm, causing her to drop her groceries,
and demanded her purse, she said.
She had IN her hand, ready for
just such an emergency, the tiny tear
gas gun given her by her husband
two years ago. Deliberately standing
so the wind blew from her to her
attacker. she fired the gas charge
directly into his face. He turned and
ran away, his hands to his eyes,
screaming: my God, I'm blind"
Cash and Ring Stolen.
The largest theft reported yesterday
involved purse containing $163 80 in
cash and two diamond rings valued at
$400, which Marianne B. Skinner, 208
r street NV, told police was stolen
from chair in the fur department
Of downtown department store.
Among the bandits identified by
recenI hold-up victims in the lineup
last night were two young Maryland
brothers accused of eight hold-ups
here last week, and members of a
seven-man colored gang which is
blamed for 40 or more robberies here
and in Baltimore.
Ellsworth Tippett, II, of Ardmore,
Nd, was identified in the eight hold
ups by the seven victims, and his
brother, Ellis Tippett. 20. was picked
out by two of the victims The Tip
petit brothers were arrested in
Woodbridge (Va) inn last Thursday
night. "a hours after their alleged
holding up of seven grocery stores and
filling stations, including one robbed
two nights earlier.
They were identified by Fannie Lit
man, 337 Third street S.W.: Louis
Hillman, 316 Ninth street S.W.: Mil
lard Brickerd, Twenty-sixth street
and Benning road NE; David Frye,
Twenty-fourth street and Benning
road NE; Abraham Butts, 831 Sixth
street S.W.: Morris Bassin, SO D street
Sc, and Grover Dare, 36 D street Sc.
Colored Gang Identified.
Members of the colored bandit gang,
all of Baltimore, picked out of the
lineup included Harry NJ Towson
and Andrew Savage, who were cap
tured after a running gun battle with
police when their automobile crashed
into a parked automobile at the Peace
Cross in Bladensburg Friday night,
and John johnson, Roosevelt Carter,
Clarence Trusty and Samuel Brady,
who were rounded up by Baltimore
police over the week end. Thomas
Austin, still at large, was identified
from a picture by three victims.
Those identifying the colored sus-
poets included Moe Helm, 600 street
Sc; Isaac La PadoS, 3110 Rhode
Island avenue NE; Benjamin Wilson,
705 Fourth street NV; Nick Bobys,
SOL Florida avenue NV; Manuel
Auerbach. 1911 North Capitol street;
Stanley Golden, 300 M street S.W.;
Abraham Kaufman 1901 T street
NV; Eddie B. Smith, COS Eleventh
street S.W.; Leon Pappas, 43 H street
NV; Aaron Golubotzky, 433 Ninth
street S.W., and Millie Farber, 1000
Seventh street NV.
Carter. johnson and Trusty were
identified by 10 hold-up victims in
Baltimore yesterday according to the