Evening star., 1938-06-07
TWO WHITE MEN
QU|zzED IN D. c.
ABDUCTION CASE
Arrested in Fredericksburg
After Police Shoot Tire
Off Car.
.M0T0RIST AND MACHINE
TAKEN INTO VIRGINIA
Police Say Pair Have Admitted
Holding Up Maryland Man
on Fourteenth Street.

Two young white men, captured late
last night when Fredericksburg, Va,
police shot a tire off the automobile
the men had stolen from local sales
man for flight southwark. were ques-
toned today in connection with Other
recent robberies.
Returned here early today from
Fredericksburg, the men told police
they were Mosco Parker, %, of Blue
Ridge, Tex, said to be on five years
probation for a highway robbery
charge in Texas, and Morgan Jones,
80, of no fixed address, but reported
by police to be from Scranton, Pa.
Both men said they were painters.
Hold-up Declared Admitted.
Police said the men admitted hold
Ing up William A. Ostmann, AZ, of
Montrose. Md, salesman for Auth
Bros, Inc, local meat dealers, at
Fourteenth and Water streets S.W.
last night and stealing his automobile
after forcing him to drive them into
Arlington County, where they put
him out of the car.
They were captured by Fredericks-
burg Policemen Ellis Richardson, A.
G. Kendall and H. F. Fleming, who
recognized Mr. Ostmann's car from
a radio lookout and started chasing
1t when it approached Fredericksburg
A bullet from one of the officers guns
blew a tire off the rim of the fleeing
auto and the two men surrendered
without resistance. Police said they
were not armed.
Mr.. Ostmann said the men opened
the doors on both sides of his car and
stepped in, one into the front seat be-
side him and one into the rear, when
he stopped for traffic light at Four
teenth and Water streets S.W. shortly
after 10 pm. Both held concealed in
their pockets what appeared to be
pistols, he said.
Pistols" Pieces of Wood.
The pistols" really were pieces of
wood which they had picked up in the
hope Of making their victim think they
were guns protruding in their pockets,
the men told officers who returned
them here.
When they got into my car" Mr.
Ostmann said, II hurriedly told them
If they wanted money, I'd give it to
them, and took some change from nv
pocket, but they said all they wanted
was my car and didn't take nv
money" He said he had nearly $40
in his pockets.
The men forced him to drive to
near Russell and Glebe roads in Ar
lington County, where they put him out
Of the car, Mr. Ostmann said. They
made him walk to the front of the
machine, he added, and for a moment
he thought they were going to run
over him, but another car approached
and they sped away.
After vainly trying to wave down
passing motorists, he walked to a drug
store and telephoned police. Warnings
flashed out over police radios and less
than an hour later the fleeing men
were trapped by the Fredericksburg
officers.
Detective Sergts. Paul E. Ambrose
and James j. Tolson, who returned the
prisoners to Washington about 5 am.
said they talked willingly about hold
ing up Mr.. Ostmann, but baIked at
giving details of their other recent
activities. They would say only that
they wanted the automobile for trip
South. The car was returned here
along with the prisoners.
After thorough investigation, the
prisoners will be paraded in lineup
ut police headquarters for possible
Identification by victims of recent rob-
berries here, police said.
No Wounds Found.
Mr.. Ostmann said one of the men
complained, as he drove them into
Arlington County, that he had been
shot in the knee and the wound was
paining him. Police said, however,
preliminary examination showed no
wounds on either prisoner.
In the only other hold-up reported
here last night Frederick Small 208
Sixteenth street Sc, taxicab driver.
said two white men, one armed with a
revolver, robbed him of IS and escaped
on foot near Conduit and Chain
Bridge roads.
Meanwhile, police invited recent rob-
berry victims to attend a lineup at
headquarters tonight and attempt to
identify more than IS colored suspects
seized In weekend raids.