Evening star., 1938-01-14
RObberies
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hold-ups might never have occurred
prior to the alleged rampage of crime.
Since District law provides that in
toxicating liquor cannot be sold to
males under 81 years of age. police are
planning to ferret out the identity of
the liquor dealer who sold the youth
action against him.
Inspector Thompson announced the
$25 reward he offered for information
leading to the capture of two drink
crazed youths who terroriZed seven
Washington storekeepers in less than
an hour Wednesday night would go to
Samuel I. Durphy, proprietor Of the
inn at Woodbridge.
Mr. Durphy. familiar with newspaper
stories of Washington banditry, became
suspicious at dusk yesterday when the
two young men and the girl registered
at his place. 1t was on his information
that the capture was made. InSpec-
tor Thompson said Mr.. Durphy would
be here next Thursday and probably
would collect the reward
Mr.. Durphy went to the nearby
home Of Capt. Paul Pegelow Of Lorton
Reformatory. He waited for two
hours until the captain returned home
from Alexandria. Capt Pegelow tele-
phoned Mr.. Durphys information to
It. Warren O. Embrey of the Police
Department here.
At this time, Inspector Thomp-
eon. Capt Keck. Detective Sergts.
Frank Brass. Robert Barrett and
Aubrey Tolson and Precinct Detec-
tives E. E. Scott and E. L. Guest had
stopped in nearby Virginia, 10 miles
from Woodbridge, to search a tourist
camp.
The inspector received 1t Embrey's
radio message to call headquarters
and thus learned the suspects were in
the inn at Woodbridge. On the way
there, the District officers were joined
by Sergt E. j. McDermott and an
other trooper Of the Virginia State
Police
Inspector Thompson said his men
were armed only with service guns as
they entered the Durphy lodging
house. They met Ellsworth coming
down the steps from the second floor.
He was arrested without struggle.
Girl Bursts Into Tears.
In a second-foor room the police
squad found Ellis and the O'Brien girl
sitting on the side of the bed Ellis,
too, submitted quietly to capture and
Miss Q'Brien burst into tears. In two
shiny new leather jackets hanging on
the wall of the room Inspector Thomp-
son found loaded revolvers.
A story Of crime that started Mon
day, when Miss OBrien was reported
missing by her mother, Mrs. Ernestine
O'Brien, began to unfold, the police
said, as the caravan proceeded toward
Washington with the three prisoners.
The girl cried all the way. Ellsworth
and Ellis adopted a cocksure attitude,
the inspector said, and proclaimed "if
there hadn't been so many of you,
we'd have shot it out"
The brothers confessed at headquar-
ters, Inspector Thompson said. On
their persons, police found SAL. They
had paid their hotel bill at Wood
bridge in advance and were preparing
to pack the bundles they were carrying
and leave when they were arrested.
Miss O'Brien told Inspector Thomp-
son she was with the Tippitts during
the Wednesday night orgy. She denied
knowledge of the Monday night hold
up In which Millard S. Brickerd, at
tendant at gas station at Benning
road and Oklahoma avenue NE, was
robbed. Two nights later the same
boys, according to Mr. Brickerd, came
again and took $25 from the cash
register.
II didn't do anything, honest I
didn't" the girl sobbed. "They
wouldn't let me 60. We were going to
Hickory, N. c., to get married"
Inspector Thompson said today that
the Tippitts would be placed In a
special police lineup, the date to be
set later, to see II they could be iden-