Evening star., 1938-01-17
BANDIT SUSPECTS
TO Be IN LINEUP
More Than Score Will Be
Paraded Before Nearly
200 Victims.

200 Victims.
Police said today they hoped num-
erous recent hold-ups would be cleared
up tonight when more than q score
Of bandit suspects will be paraded be-
fore nearly 400 robbery victims for
Identification In = lineup at police
headquarters.
The lineup, one of the largest to
be held for months, will include two
Maryland youths who were captured
Thursday night after allegedly holding
up seven grocery stores and filling
stations here the night before, and
members Of Baltimore colored ban
dit gang blamed for 20 or more rob-
berries here.
Intensified police activity in round
Ing up the bandit gangs last week
apparently put . damper on major
criminal activity over the week end
Capt. Ira e. Keck. assistant chief OF
detectives. said the scattered hold-ups
and robberies reported apparently
were not the work of any organized
gang.
Samuel Gittelman, proprietor Of Q
women's wear store at 1885 Seventh
street NV, reported he was robbed
of more than 500 by an armed COL
ored man who held him up in the
store as he was opening up for the
day.
The man first asked to buy a pair
Of women's stockings and then pointed
the gun at him when he turned his
back, Mr.. Gittelman said
Chest Office Ransacked.
A colored burglar who ransacked the
Community Chest Office at 1l01 M
street NV. yesterday was captured by
police as he ran from the Office. ap-
parently without obtaining any loot.
William G. Oxley, manager OF the
Chest Office, surprised the burglar in
the basement about 8 am. yesterday.
The colored man jumped out window.
Two second precinct patrolmen cap
tured him after tWo-block chase Mr..
Oxley said there was large amount
of money in the Office. but preliminary
check indicated nothing was missing.
Holdup men robbed Leslie r. Shipp,
3l8 Ninth street Sc, a cab driver.
of IS; Edmund Vincent. 1911 A street
NE. another cab driver, OF SO. and
Joseph Hartman, attendant at filling
station at Fifteenth and U streets
NV. of $40. Betty Davis, 81. colored.
900 block Of Sixth street NV, was
robbed Of $178 by a colored man who
slugged her as she was entering her
home early Sunday. She received
serious head injuries.
Arrest Of the two Maryland youths
for the hold-up foray here last week
may also have broken up a gang
blamed for so slot-machine robberies
in Prince Georges County, Md, police
said
Suspected Of Being Leaders.
Chief Arthur Hepburn of the Prince
Georges County police conferred with
Capt. Keck yesterday. disclosing the
young brothers, Ellis Tippett. 20. and
Ellsworth Tippett, II, of Ardmore,
Md. were suspected of being leaders
OF the small gang that has been smash
ing slot machines in the county. Two
other youths are sought in connection
with the series Of robberies.
Inspector Bernard w. Thompson.
chief of detectives, said today he
would ask that Margaret OBrien, a.
year-old schoolgirl who allegedly &C.
companied the Tippett brothers on
the hold-up foray here Wednesday
night. be held as material witness
in the case. Authorities previously
had decided she should be released to
her parents today.
Appearing along with the Tippett
brothers in the lineup at headouar-
ters tonight will be Harry Towson and
Andrew Savage, both Is, of Balti-
more, two alleged members of a COL
ored bandit gang that has terrorized
Washington and Baltimore storekeep-
ers during recent months.
Towson and Savage were captured
after a running gun battle with po-
lice Friday night when their auto
mobile failed to make turn into the
Defense highway at the Peace Cross
in Bladensburg and crashed into a
parked car. Three other colored men,
who allegedly had accompanied them
In hold-ups of two stores here Friday
night, escaped in q hail of police
bullets.
One Of the fugutives and two other
alleged members of the seven-man
gang were captured Saturday in Bal
timore on information supplied by
local police. The other two fugutives
still were being sought today.
Capt. Keck said efforts were being
made today to have the three sus-
poets captured in Baltimore brought
here tonight to appear in the lineup
for possible identification by local
hold-up victims.
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