Evening star., 1938-05-31
SUSPECT IS SHOT
|. AS 80 ROBBER|ES
PPOL|CE BUSY
Man Held for Quizzing in
Chevy Chase Club HoId-Up
Wounded in Raid.
GROCERY CAR LOOTED
BY 20 BOYS AND GIRL S
Loot of Nearly $4,000 Obtained.
Delivery Boy Arrested in
$877 Petworth Theft.

Police observed the holiday" yes
terday by shooting and capturing an
other suspect in the recent Chevy
Chase Club robbery, catching 10
colored boys and girls stealing caviar,
jelly and other delicacies from a box
car of groceries, and investigating re-
ports of % other thefts in which loot
amounted to nearly $4,000.
The crime reports included five
armed hold-ups, in which bandits OBJ
tanned a total of only $3.50 from
storekeepers and taxicab drivers. A
colored delivery boy was arrested for
investigation in the $877 robbery Of
the Petworth Pharmacy, 7723 Georgia
avenue NV, the major HOUSEKEEPING
reported in the last "a hours.
With three colored men already held
for investigation in connection with
the $3.50 hold-up of the night watch.
man at the Chevy Chase CLUB last
Friday, second precinct police received
a telephone "tip" last night that the
actual bandits were in house in the
600 block of o street NV.
Fleeing Suspect Shot.
Precinct Detective Frank Ashley
and Pvts. r. L. Dunn and F. M. Owen
went to the house with Montgomery
County Policemen R. Jones and Robert
L. Detrow. A score of colored men
were inside. Officer Detrow watched
the entrance while the other officers
raided the house.
Officer Detrow said one colored man
jumped from window. The officer
said he called to the man to "Stop or
I'll shoot" and the fugitive yelled
back, Shoot and be danned!" and
kept running. Officer Detrow fired
once, the bullet piercing the sole Of
the suspects foot. The wounded man
was treated at Freedmen's Hospital
and held under arrest there for in
vestigation
Nineteen others in the o street raid
were questioned and later released.
Earlier in the day Motor Cycle
Policeman c. A. Scott suspected some
thing wrong when he saw 7-year-old
colored boy dragging a soap box
wagon, loaded with pancake flour,
from the Pennsylvania Railroad yards
in the 600 block of G street S.W.
Score of Youthful Looters.
Investigation disclosed a score Of
colored boys and girls looting boxcar
OF groceries, consigned to the M. e.
Horton Co.
Officer Scott and other policemen
rounded up the youthful robbers, ar
resting 10 ranging from to % years
old, and releasing several under Z
years of age as too young to arrest.
From boxes. toy wagons and sacks
into which the raiders had stuffed
their loot, police recovered nearly $500
worth of groceries, including "a cans
of caviar. II five-pound tins of jelly,
SO packages of gelatin, "a packages of
pancake flour, IL cans of bean soup, 20
cans of deviled ham, IL packages Of
shredded coconut and 12 cans of coffee.
Two Sought in Hold-Ups.
Two young white bandits were
sought in three of the hold-ups re-
porte d last night. In rapid succession
they robbed Hyman Zitomer, operator
Of store at 225 F. street NE, of $5;
Benjamin Herman. proprietor of a.
grocery store at 1887 Second street
S.W., of SIS, and Margaret Moses.
manager Of an ice cream store in the
1890 block Of Pennsylvania avenue
NV, Of $50.
Other hold-up victims were John A.
Joiner, colored taxicab driver, of 72O
Park place NV, robbed of $3.50 by a
colored passenger, and James Kalure,
taxicab driver of sos L street NV.
robbed of Sc by white passenger.
Pickpockets took $38 from George
e. Pruitt, IS, of 1922 Cathedral avenue
NV, while he was trying to find a
seat in downtown motion picture
theater, he told police.
Minor housebreakings made I'D the
bulk of the other thefts reported over
the holiday.