Evening star., 1939-07-27
Girl and. 7 Men
Hold Up Truck
Near Rockville
Believed Same Trio
Who Abducted Filling
Station Attendant

accomplices who abducted and
robbed an Alexandria filling station
attendant Monday night were
blamed for a highway holdup in
Maryland early today.
Holding up Malcolm McMichael,
%, of Brentwood, Nd, when he
stopped his truck 9 miles west of
Rockville on the Rockville Frederick
road to examine the headlights, the
trio made off with a pocketbook
containing 81.
The truckers brother and helper,
Roy McMichael 81, slept through
the robbery on the front seat of the
van. Both men are employed by
the Cannon Ball Transit Co. of
Washington, owned by their father,
George D. McMichael, also of
Brentwood.
The elder brother, who had been
held up three times previously
escaping once with 38 machine-gun
bullets in his truck after ditching a
car load of gangsters near Phila-
delphia, said the bandits missed "a
large amount of money" he had
secreted in the van
He refused to tell police the sum
they overlooked.
Stops to Examine Lights.
Malcolm McMichael said he was
en- route home from trip to Gin
cinnati about / o'clock this morn
ing, driving The Texas Baby"
when the headlights dimmed and
almost went out. He stopped the
truck and walked to the front to
examine the lights.
Il was bent over the truck, look
ing at the lights, when some one
jammed something in my back" he
declared Il wheeled, thinking it
was my brother playing a joke on
me. but there stood a stranger COW
ering me with a .32-caliber auto
matte pistol.
Il then noticed a car, which T
ting in back of the truck. A girl
armed with a snub-nosed, nickle-
r ri revolver walked up and said
let me have it. I knew she
wanted my money and told her my
pocketbook was in my trouser pock-
ct. She got it out and told me to
sit down
Il sat down on the roadside and
the car, driven by a second man I
hadn't seen up to that time, came
up to the front of the truck. The
first bandit got in the automobile
and the girl stood on the running
board and covered me with her re-
volver as they drove away '-s~s e
Fail to Overtake Car. ze,z = d,
Mr.. McMichael said he aroused
his brother, who had been asleep
on the front seat of the truck dur
ing the robbery and wasn't seen by
the bandits, and the two set out
after the automobile, but could not
overtake it. 1t disappeared in the
direction of Washington.
The trucker said neither of the
men with the girl spoke during the
holdup. The girl, he declared, di-
rected the entire proceedings.
The truckmen reported the hold
up to Montgomery County police
at Rockville and it was said there
the descriptions of the trio and the
car they used checked with the
description of the bandits and ma
chine in the Alexandria robbery.
On Monday night girl and two
bandits abducted Roy Allyn, 49,
year-old filling station employe,
drove him 10 miles south and left
him tied to a tree after robbing
him of s27.
The trio told Mr.. Allyn they eX-
pected Ito be in the holdup busi-
ness until Christmas" and said they
wanted the money Ito 60 to the New
York Fair"
Todays robbery was the fourth
time Mr.. McMichael has been held
up He said he was robbed once
by a bandit in Prince Georges
County about five years ago A short
time later hijackers pulled along
side his truck between Philadelphia
and Trenton and ordered him to
halt. but he escaped amid hail
of machine gun bullets after run
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On another occasion, he said a
bandit stopped him as he was walk
ing along the Philadelphia Trenton
road
"He shot me through the hand
and escaped when I jumped on
him." Mr.. McMichael said.
The truck driver told police the
girl appeared to be about 20 or %
years old" and had blond hair, blue
eyes, a scar on her left wrist and
small scar between the eyes. He
said she was wearing blue slacks,
khaki shirt and dark cap.
He told police the man who covered
him with the automatic while the
girl robbed him was about Is years
old and dark complexioned. He was
unable to give a description of the
second man.
The truck driver said the license
plates on the bandits car were
covered up. In the Alexandria hold
up the bandits had rags wrapped
around the tags.
HoIdup Trio Lock Man
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