Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-08-21
ROBBERY ARRESTS !
AIDED BY WOMAN
Police Telephone Operator
Sees Pair Leave Her
Looted Apartment.

Burglary OF police telephone OPP
orators apartment led to the cap
ture of two Arlington County CVa)
men who had driven an automobile
loaded with guns and burglars tools
on series of robbery forays in the
District and nearby Virginia, police
said last night.
The men were arrested Friday night
a few hours after Mrs. Cora Horn,
telephone operator at police head
quarters, had seen them leaving her
ransacked apartment and supplied
officers with. their description and
the license number of their car.
Detectives grilled the prisoners
secretly for several hours and last
night Inspector Bernard w. Thomp-
son, chief of detectives. said one
of them had admitted eight burgla-
ries here. Held incommunicado on
open charges. they were being ques-
toned further last night in connec-
ton with numerous other unsolved
cases.
Burglar Tools Found.
Discovery of q virtual arsenal and
a complete set Of burglars tools, in
GLIDING some that might be used to
open safes, in the suspects auto
mobile led police to belive they
might be implicated in several re-
cent holdups and safe robberies
The two suspects ran from a hall
way as Mrs. Horn and her 21-year-old
son, Stanley Whalen. returned to their
apartment at 1914 Georgia avenue
NV. late Friday. 1t had been broken
into and Mrs. Horn and her son ran
out to see the two men leaving in an
automobile. They noticed that one of
the men had bandage on his hand
On this information. police imme-
diately broadcast a lookout for the
robbers.
Seventh Precinct Policeman ]. P.
Raetzmans suspicious were aroused
when he saw two men answering the
descriptions emerge from a liquor
store near Thirty-fifth and M streets
NV. Friday night He arrested the
man with the bandaged hand, whose
companion escaped.
Other Taken at Home.
From the prisoner, who said he had
cut his hand on window of house
he had broken into in Arlington
County, Detective Sergt. John Cation
and Precinct Detective Robert MUIR
ray secured information on which
they and county officers captured the
other man at his home.
Meantime, the officers found the
suspects car parked in the 5000 block
Of Prospect avenue NV. In it were
seven pistols, some Of them wrapped
and stored under the front seat, and
one fully loaded in the front door
pocket. There were more than 200
rounds Of ammunition. Burglars tools
were packed under the rear seat and
in a trunk The numbers had been
filed of the pistols.
An assortment Of torn currency
and several duplicate keys, apparently
used in entering homes they burglar
lied, also were found in the pris-
oners' car.
Torn Currency Mystery.
Sergt. Cation said the significance
Of the torn currency was a mystery
to police. There were several 81, IS
and $40 bills and one 500 bill in the
assortment, he said.
One of the suspects was identified
as pardoned convict from Iowa,
where records showed he had been
given a l0-year sentence in 1884 for
HOUSEKEEPING, paroled in 1886 and
pardoned q year later.
Police could place no estimate on
the amount of loot believed stolen by
the prisoners. They were accused of
taking jewelry valued At $50 to $50
from Mrs. Horns apartment.