Evening star., 1939-02-17
Young Bandits Rob
kotorman Of $40
And Token Supply
Womon's Quick Thinking
Results in Thwortine
Of Grocery HoIdup
The youthful bandits, believed to

The youthful bandits, believed to
be the same thugs responsible for
a series of street car holdups during
the past two weeks. robbed motor
man of more than $40 and 202
tokens early today at Eleventh and
c streets NE.
The victim, Elwood Wilson, $50
Elliott street NE. told police one
OF the youths threatened him with
nickel-plated revolver when they
boarded the car at the intersection
He said he was forced to hand over
SIS in bills to one of the bandits
while the other grabbed the change
carrier containing about $3.50 and
the tokens.
The pair fed through an alley.
Mr.. Wilson said no passengers were
on the car at the time of the rob-
berry. His descriptions of the two
men Tailed closely with that of two
bandits who have participated in a
number of similar holdups recently,
two OF which have occurred at the
car loop off Lower Fourteenth street
SW.
Police late yesterday broadcast
lookout for man who attempted
to sell a quantity of car tokens to
a motorman on the Seventh street
car line. The man is listed as a
suspect in the holdup series.
Grocery Holdup Thwarted.
Quick-thinking on the part of
Mrs. Rebecca Seigel, so, of SO6 E
street S.W., resulted yesterday in
the capture Of colored thief who
held her up at her grocery store
near her home.
The man entered the store while
Mrs. Seigel was alone and demanded
that she turn over the contents of
the cash register. She handed him
about So but he demanded more
money. Reaching under the coun-
ter, presumably to get a bag of
change. Mrs. Seigel came up with a
.45-caliber pistol.
The bandit pulled something COW
cred with handkerchief from his
pocket and commanded: Drop
that gun or I'll shoot"
The victim complied but rushed
out behind the thief, shouting for
help. Officer P. c. Lewis of the
fourth precinct heard her shouts
and captured the man in a nearby
alley. He was held at the precinct
station for investigation.
Change Trick Works.
A delivery boy for drug store at
Dupont Circle was robbed of $40
last night when he took pint of
whisky and change for a $40 bill to
an apartment house in the 1900
block OF Connecticut avenue. Eu-
gene johnson, colored, of GOT o
street NV, said he was grabbed
from behind when he reached the
corridor to make the delivery, and
his assistant, white youth, de-
manded the money after placing a
blunt instrument" in the boys back.
Johnson said he handed over the
$40 and the thief fled when tenant
came down the hallway.
Man Beaten With Pine,
Marshall r. Perkins, "a, of the 600
block of independence avenue S.W.,
was in fair" condition at Cas-
ualty Hospital today with severe
head injuries, which he said he re-
ceived last night when a colored
man beat him with an iron pipe in
an attempt to rob him of his over
coat and jacket. The alteration
took place, the victim said, in the
600 block Of Sixth street NV. :.
A purse containing more than $22
was snatched by a colored man from
Miss Nelson Blackford, 29-year-old
Government employe, near her home
In the 1000 block of Twentieth
street NV. last night. A short while
later, a bandit answering to the gen.
eral description of Miss Blackford's
assailant, robbed Benjamin Reed,
70. taxicab driver, of more than
$40 and his wrist watch after he
had been forced to drive the man
to lonely spot on Sheriff road NE,
near the District line.