Evening star., 1938-06-21
HO[D-UP SUSPECTS
SEIZED BY POLICE
Armed Robbery of Filling
Station Man and Taxi
Driver Reported.

Armed robbery Of a filling station
operator and a taxicab driver and
the arrest of two Of three suspects
in the latter case figured in crime
activity in the city last night and
early today.
Police also are holding = former
Navy Yard painter. who. they said.
has confessed robbing the Shah &
Shah Jewelry Co. last April.
Two white men, one armed with
rusty revolver and the other with
.22-caliber rifle. accosted X. F.
Walton, night manager OF the Holmes
OIL Co., Seventeenth street and Ben
ming road NE, early today and de-
manded that he turn over the con-
tents of the cash register
open the register yourselves" Mr..
Walton said he told the men, his
hands held in the air as he faced
the drawn guns.
Customer Drives Up.
A customer drove up outside as one
OF the men started toward the till,
he said. and the bandits became
frightened. One then commanded
the manager to open the register. Mr..
Walton obeyed, and one Of the men
scooped up approximately SO in
change and fed in a waiting auto
mobile as the customer pulled out of
the station to find police
The bandits overlooked more than
$40 Mr.. Walton had in his pocket.
Shortly after an attempted hold-up
OF Wilbur I. Snyder, taxicab driver,
by three colored men, one Of whom
held a pistol. police arrested two sus-
poets who are being held today at the
ninth precinct. Arrest of the third is
expected today. police said
Mr.. Snyder. who lives at 42s Thir-
teenth street NE, told police he
picked up the trio at Connecticut
avenue and M street NV and drove
them to Seventeenth and Rosedale
streets NE. where one pulled a pis-
tol and demanded his money. The
driver said the men apparently be-
came frightened and fed from his
machine without taking any cash.
Hciu III JcWcHy NOUUcIy.
The man arrested in connection
with the jewelry store robbery Is John
G. Knott. alias John OBrien. who was
picked up by Detective 1t. Joseph
Guest at his home in the 1900 block
OF l. street Sc. late yesterday as he
was preparing to leave town.
Knott was indicted by grand jury
several weeks ago under the name
John OBrien" for $500 larceny
of office equipment from the ]. B.
Hanger Co., 200 block of G street
NV. Capt. Ira E. Keck, acting chief
of detectives. said Knott admitted this
robbery, as well as the $3.50 robbery
of the jewelry store. He has been
charged with HOUSEKEEPING.
Safe Robbed Of s72.
Samuel c. Hubbard, manager of
filling station at 643l Georgia avenue
NV. found his safe had been opened
during the night and robbed of S72
and number of checks Another fill
ing station was robbed at 1900 Elev-
enth street NV. The proprietor. Rob-
ert Matter, told police some one en-
tered through side window and made
of with $27 he had hidden in a soap
powder barrel
Second precinct police arrested a
36-year-old white man in connection
with the robbery of a taxicab driver,
George Litz, early today. Mr. Litz told
police he drove the man from Fifteenth
and G streets NV. to the 1400 block
OF Third street NV. where his pas
senger climbed to the front seat and
ordered the driver from his cab. Mr..
Litz said the man had his hand In his
pocket as if holding gun.
The man was arrested in the ma
chine shortly after driving it away.