Evening star., 1940-03-27
Capture
Second Mani
Store Ho|dup
Woman Struck by
Burglar; Robbery
Victim, IS, Beaten

Metropolitan police early today
seized q second bandit suspect after
an unarmed Capitol policeman cap
tured the first one in a spectacular
chase from a liquor store at 1345
Fourteenth street NV. yesterday
afternoon.
Both men have records, police said,
and one was identified this morning
In two additional holdups.
Officers at the same time were
seeking a colored burglar who in
tured a young woman in her home
last night and two colored rob-
bers who beat an elderly man and
escaped with $170 in cash and
$3.50 in Government checks.
The man arrested early today
was described by police as an In
dian and former inmate of St.
Elizabeth's Hospital, said to have
police record and at least one con-
viction.
He was believed to have been
the man who waited in a taxicab
near the Fourteenth street liquor
store about pm. yesterday while
a companion went in to hold the
place up.
Robber Pulls Gun.
The robber swung a gun on Will
liam Silverstein, clerk in the store,
and James Perry, an assistant, after
handing Mr.. Silverstein dollar bill
and asking for pint of whisky.
Don't Shoot" said Mr.. Silverstein,
"you can have all the money here!"
Make sure you give me all the
money" the bandit said, waving his
gun. He then left with the contents
of the cash register-$53.85.
A moment later friend Of Mr..
Silverstein, Harry Lassover of 170l
Sixteenth street NV, walked in.
Informed of the robbery, Mr.. Lass
over ran to the street. He saw man
hurriedly enter a taxicab and fol-
lowed, getting on the running board
when the cab stopped for red light
at Logan Circle.
At the same time two men in the
tonneau leaped from the other side
of the cab and fled.
Officer Gives Chase.
Meanwhile, Capitol Policeman
George A. De Cottes, 27, alighted
from a street car nearby on the way
to his home in the 1900 block of Ver-
mont avenue NV. He was off duty
and unarmed except for blackjack.
The officer followed one man as
he fled from the taxicab. The man
ran into an apartment at 1901 Ver-
mont avenue NV, descending to
the boiler room with Pvt. De Cottes
In pursuit.
The fugitive, the officer said,
pressed against wall and made
move as If for a gun. The police
man closed in and struck the man
lightly, he said, with his blackjack.
He subdued the suspect and
turned him over to Metropolitan
police.
The suspect arrested early today
denied implication in yesterdays
robbery, although, police said. he
was identified later in two recent
store holdups, one at 1925 Ninth
street NV, the other at 1448 P
street NV.
The man captured by Pvt. De
Cottes recently was released from
Lorton Reformatory, where he had
served term for robbery. He had
a police record, it was said, In South
Carolina, Texas and Alabama. Both
men were held for investigation.
Miss Netty Elsman, 26, a Govern
ment employe, was struck on the
head and slightly injured shortly
before last midnight by a colored
burglar who entered window OF
her bedroom at 2313 Fifteenth
street NV.
Cries Rout Intruder.
Miss Elsman awoke and turned on
the light when she heard the in
truder. who struck her with an un-
identified weapon. The woman
screamed and the man fled. Miss
Elsman was treated at Garfield Hos
pital for a lacerated scalp and fore
head.
Bernard j. Boyle, IS, of 800 L
street NV, told police two colored
men pulled him into an alley near
his home and robbed him about so
o'clock this morning. They struck
him with some sharp object. He was
treated at Emergency Hospital for a
scalp wound.
Three colored bandits last night
held up the Federal Oil Station at
1860 lexington place NE, and es-
caped with $50. The bandits searched
and forced him into a washroom be-
fore leaving.