Evening star., 1938-04-28
POLICE NAB TRIO,
SAVE $1,000 AFTER
VIGIL OF z HOURS
Shotgun Squad Goes Into
Action at Bus Barn of
Transit Company.
BANDIT WAITING IN CAR
MAKES GOOD HIS ESCAPE
Detectives Spent Three Days
Without Relief Awaiting
Tip Development.

Three days and three nights of un-
broken vigilance, during which they
slept little and munched sandwiches
while awaiting the development of
tip" paid dividends to shotgun
squad" of detectives early today by
enabling them to capture three would
be bandits and thwart a $4,000 hold
up at the bus barn of the Capital
Transit Co., Fourteenth and Buch-
anan streets.
Information that the barn was to
be the scene of a robbery had been
given to Detective Chief Bernard w.
Thompson Monday morning and he
Immediately selected four crack de-
tectives, headed by Lieut.. John c.
Fowler, to set up a plant"
Armed with repeating shotguns. 1t.
Fowler and Detective Sergts. Elmer
Lewis, J. J. Tolson and E. E. Thomp-
son went to the barn, where two of
them concealed themselves in Offices
adjoining the cashiers cage and the
other two "lolled around" outside.
Lay in Wait y Hours.
For more than 70 hours, without
relief, the detectives lay in wait and
saw nothing unusual.
At 2:30 O'Clock this morning the
last owl" bus checked in at the barn
and the driver checked out after
turning over the nights receipts
Cashier Matthew Ramisch, 54OS
First street NV. was busy with his
accounts when man walked into the
barn, produced $40 bill and politely
requested change for it.
When the cashier turned his back
to get smaller bills from a drawer
the stranger took a revolver from his
pocket and quietly ordered, Put up
your hands" Meanwhile, a second
man had joined the gunman and he
held his hand in his pocket in a
manner suggesting he, too had gun.
Detectives Take Charge.
AS the cashier turned, bewildered,
1t. Fowler and Sergt. Thompson
stepped out Of their places of con-
cealment. The detectives threw up
their shotguns and 1t. Fowler COM
manded: Listen now, you guys stick
'em up and drop those guns" The
man with the gun complied and his
companion, who, it developed didn't
have a gun. showed no resistance
From their posts outside, Sergts.
Tolson and Lewis said they saw
third man waiting near the barn
entrance. After the surrender of the
two inside, the third man. police
said, started hurriedly down Four
teenth street. The detectives followed
him and took him into custody near
Park road
Inspector Thompson said a fourth
man, who had been waiting in a car,
escaped. The inspector was on a near
by corner when the fourth man start
ed away in an automobile The fleeing
car disappeared down side street be-
fore the inspector could get into his
own machine.
$1,000 in Cashiers Cage.
The detective chief estimated there |
was about $4,000 in the cashiers cage
at the time the attempted hold-up was
staged
The men arrested we're sent to diff
ferent precincts and held incommuni-
cado. They were identified by police |
as Gordon Albert Schofeld, 26, of the
300 block of I street NV, being held |
at No. II; William J. Glynn, q, of
the 1900 block of E street Sc, held
at No. l. and Winston H. Andrews, 20, |
Of the 300 block of Third street NV,
held at No. 4.
Have Police Records.
The police files disclosed all three
Of the prisoners have previous records
and have served Jail sentences.
Schofield according to the records, |
was sentenced to from to 18 months
in June, 1884. in two housebreaking
cases; was involved in a S70O grand
larceny in New Orleans in February,
1884, and was arrested once on the
West Coast.
Glynn, alias John Brown, was an
inmate of the National Training
School for Boys, the records showed,
and later served sentence at Lor-
ton Reformatory for robbery. In all
he has been arrested nearly score of
times, the other charges including
petty larceny, disorderly, drunk and
assault.
Andrews, known as "Chinaboy," was
sent to Lorton in 1884 for housebreak-
ing, the records revealed. He was pa
rolled and then was returned to the
reformatory after he violated his pa
role by stealing several automobiles.
Two months after he was conditionally
released again in April, 1886, he was
arrested for taking stolen car across
. State line.