Evening star., 1938-05-26
ASPIRIN BANDITS
BLAMED FOR $500
ROBBERY Of CAFE
Restaurant Man Tells of
Being Locked Inside
Own Icebox.
SMASHES HOLE IN DOOR
BY USING CASE OF BEER
Two Policemen, Eating Breakfast
Nearby at Time, Take
Employe to Station.

SAAS
Dixie Pig Barbecue in Bladensburg,
reported he was held up early today
by two young white men who escaped
with nearly $500 in cash after locking
him in the restaurants ice room and
cutting the telephone wires.
Kelly said he freed himself by
smashing hole in the door with a
case of beer and then ran for help to
another restaurant across the street,
where he found two Prince Georges
County policemen eating breakfast
The officers, Earl Huber and Edwin
Thompson, questioned Kelly closely at
the scene of the hold-up and took him
to the Hyattsville police station, and
later to Washington police headquar-
ters, for further questioning. After
several hours grilling he was released
early this afternoon and planned to
return to his job tonight.
Kelly. 25. who lives in Hyattsville
and was said to have been working at
the Dixie Pig Barbecue since last De-
cember, said the bandits entered the
restaurant about $40 am, while he
was alone, and asked for aspirin tab
lets.
Hit Over Eye.
When he turned to fill the order,
Kelly said, one Of the men jumped
over the counter with a pistol in his
hand and ordered him to walk back
into the ice room without turning his
head.
Il turned around anyway to try to
get good look at him-he was wear
ing dark glasses" Kelly said, land he
hit me over the eye with something
Everything went black for a minute
and he forced me into the ice room
and locked the door"
Several cases of beer were stored
in the room, where shelves were lined
with cakes of ice. Kelly said he
rammed hole through the door with
one Of the cases Of beer, and then
reached through to turn the lock,
cutting his arm on the jagged edges OF
wood as he did so. He found the re-
ceiver had been cut off the pay-station
telephone.
Receipts In Strong BOX.
Most Of yesterdays and last nights
receipts had been transferred from the
cash registers to q strong box and
locked in small liquor storage room
behind the bar. The robbers had
broken glass pane to open this door
and take the cash box. A smaller
amount Of money in the cash register
had not been disturbed.
Thomas S. Long of Bladensburg,
manager Of the restaurant, estimated
there was between $3.50 and $500 in
the missing cash box.
A colored man who was sweep
ing in front of the restaurant said
he saw the two men reported to have
held up Mr.. Kelly enter and leave a
few moments later, driving away in
a dark sedan toward Baltimore.
Two men answering the same de-
scription later were seen in lunch
room operated by John F. CPop)
Myers in Beltsville. Md. Suspicious OF
their actions, girl employe called po-
lice. but they had driven away before
officers arrived.
Meanwhile, Timothy Eldridge, 1912
Columbia road N. W., reported he
was struck on the head with a black
jack and robbed Of s23 while he was
walking on Chain Bridge road, near
Glen Echo. Md, last night.
In Washington, Albert ]. Leamy, a
post Office inspector, said some one
entered his room at the Continental
Hotel with a duplicate key and stole
$50 from pair of trousers he had
left hanging on a chair.
Mrs. Virginia Cation of Arlington re.
ported a tall, neatly dressed mar
snatched her pocketbook from he,
hand in downtown store here yester.
day.
Theft Of $81 in cash and $3.50 ir
checks from the counter of a gas
station at New Jersey avenue and K
street NV. was reported by J. P
Hartley, manager.