Evening star., 1938-12-10
Shotgun Bandit
Gets $375in
Two Ho|d-Ups
Four Liquor Stores
Robbed in Night
Of Thefts

Armed with sawed-od shotgun,
a well-dressed bandit held up two
liquor stores shortly before closing
time last night and escaped with
more than s375.
A number of other thefts, most
of them in the Northwest area,
were reported early today
William Berman, proprietor OF q
liquor store in the $500 block of
Connecticut avenue NV, told police
thin, neatly attired man, who
pulled a sawed-of shotgun from the
folds of his gray overcoat, took more
than 5000 from the cash register
and then robbed a clerk and two
customers.
The clerk, Martin Berman, gave
up $l8 to the thug; Franklin
Zanzinger of Hyattsville, Md, 81,
and Nelson Brown, 1920 r street
NV, 80 cents.
Mr.. Berman told police his store
was robbed by the same man sew
eral months ago.
Robs Second Store.
Despite a lookout flashed imme-
diately over police radio, the bandit,
who made his escape on foot, bran
dished the sawedoff shotgun a few
minutes later in another whisky
store in the 1400 block of L street
NV. and forced the night man
ager, Ballin Loven, to give up $l5l 30.
Police said the man is believed
to be the same thug who has held
up number Of liquor stores here
during the last month. He is de-
scribed as being feet 10 inches
tall, 80 years old, weighing $50
pounds, having sharp features, and
last night was dressed in gray.
| Two other liquor stores were rob-
bed last night, one in the 1900 block
of Thirteenth street NV, where a
small. dark man, who kept his hand
under his coat as if holding a gun,
forced Henry Yurevich to give up
more than S25.
Sam Wolf, manager of the other
store, located at 1912 Fourth street
NE, reported young, foreign
looking man, holding a blue steel re-
volver, rif1ed the cash register of an
undetermined amount of cash and
fled through an alley.
Grocer Gives Up $40.
A colored man, armed with long
bladed knife, forced Hyman Grodsky
manager of a grocery store in the
1900 block of Eleventh street NV,
to surrender $40 shortly after Mr.
Grodsky opened his store today. The
bandit fled on foot.
Following thefts of articles from
two parked automobiles last night,
Inspector Bernard w. Thompson,
chief of detectives. issued a general
warning to motorists not to leave
packages or other articles in locked
cars because such practices "entice
thieves to break in the cars, par
ticularly at this time of the year
when there are so many transients
passing through Washington on
their way south, who jump at the
chance to pick up extra clothing
and other articles"
Fifty-six cartons of cigarettes were
stolen from an automobile which
James M. Keelley, 1926 Parkside
drive NV, parked in the 1900 block
of Seventh street NV. William
E. Kyle, 1923 Nineteenth street NV,
told police some one took clothing,
valued at $40, from car parked
near his home.
Pocketbook Snatched.
Bertha G. Watson, colored, 1901
| Ninth street NV, reported her
pocketbook snatched by a colored
girl in the 100 block of Ninth street
NV. The purse contained 10 cents
in cash, a number of street car
tokens and valuable papers. A
colored man snatched the purse of
Lucie H. Jackson 941 Westminster
place NV, as she was walking near
her home
Two pocketbooks were reported
stolen from 1916 Sixteenth street
NV. They belonged to Sarah
Schwab, who said hers contained
SO in cash and personal effects
valued at SIP. and Thelma Peel,
who said she lost S6 in cash and So
worth of personal effects.
James N. Foster 1922 Sixteenth
street NV, told police his pocket
was picked as he disembarked from
street car at Sixteenth and u
streets NV. He said his billfold
containing SIG was taken.
Capt. Harvey G. Callahan of the
first precinct reported three red
lanterns. belonging to the Police
Department, stolen last night from
the 300 block of Fifth street NV,
the 200 block of Indiana avenue
NV. and the 400 block of Second
street NV.
Two Men Sentenced