Evening star., 1938-01-16
POLICE MAY SWAP
H0LD-UP SUSPECTS.
District and Baltimore Au.
thoritjes Seek to Arrange
Exchange.

Washington police last night were
attempting to arrange for three COL
ored bandit suspects. arrested In Bal
timore yesterday as members Of q
seven-man gang that has terrorized
storekeepers Of the two cities during
recent months, to be paraded before
recent hold-up victims here in q line
up at police headquarters early this
week.
Captured at their Baltimore homes
on information which police said was
supplied by two members of the hold
up gang who were caught after q run.
ming gun battle here Friday night, the
three men were positively identified by
five Baltimore grocers yesterday as
members of the gang that robbed them
recently, police reported.
Chief Of Detectives Bernard w.
Thompson said last night he expected
to work out temporary swap" Of
prisoners with the Baltimore author
titles, under which the three men held
there would be brought here and the
two In custody here would be taken to
Baltimore for Identification by hold
ZIP victims. He said members of the
gang have admitted about 40 recent
hold-ups in the two cities.
Two Bandits Escaped.
Two of the bandits. who escaped In
a hail Of bullets as Washington police
captured two of their companions Fri.
day night were believed still at large
last night. One of those arrested in
Baltimore was said to be one of the
three who fed from their wrecked
automobile at the Peace Cross in
Bladensburg The other two held
there denied taking part in the Friday
night foray here, when two stores
we're robbed.
Meanwhile, little criminal activity
was reported either here or in Balti.
more last night.
To check an outbreak OF robberies,
300 policemen in plain clothes Joined
the regular night force of 425 men in
Baltimore. to make the largest police
force ever on duty there at one time.
Until late last night. the major Grim
lnals" there were two cats, which a
woman complained were creating a
disturbance by yowling at each other
on a back fence
Washington police received reports
Of few minor purse e-snatchings, and
theft during the day of the aims box,
containing an unknown amount of
money. from Washington Cathedral.
Fugitive Convict Captured.
Meanwhile, Baltimore County Of
f1cers captured John E. Carson, one
OF two fugitive convicts suspected in
the kidnapping and robbery of John
c. Gouldman, Washington used car
salesman, on November 10. Mr..
Gouldman. who lives in the 900 block
of Crittenden street NV. was re-
ported visiting relatives out of the
city last night. Police planned to send
picture Of the captured convict to
him today for possible identification.
Carson escaped with Irving Limper
from the Maryland State Penal Farm
at Hagerstown early in November.
They were serving terms for Balti-
more robberies.
Inspector Thompson said, mean
time. that Margaret oBrien, i4-year-
old Ardmore, Md. schoolgirl who was
taken into custody Thursday night
with Ellis and Ellsworth Tippett.
young brothers accused of seven hold
ups here Wednesday night. would be
released to her family as soon Is he
secured a written statement from her.
He interceded on her behalf yesterday
before Juvenile Court Judge Fay L,
Bentley, explaining that the girl had
not participated in the hold-ups viii
lingly. a.
Two hold-ups were reported in
nearby Virginia last night. Two white
men robbed the Sanitary Grocery Co.
store at Lyon Park, Va, of an unde-
determined amount of cash. A lone
bandit held up the State-owned LIQUOR
dispensary at Manassas, Va, and
escaped with $l04 in a car driven by
an accomplice.