Evening star., 1940-02-23
Petty Crime Wave
Includes Ho|dups
And Store Robbery
$500 Worth Of Watches
Token From Smashed
Window Downtown

A liquor store proprietor, mo-
torist and pedestrian were victims
Of overnight robberies. In one hold
up the bandits were armed with a
single-barrel shotgun and revolver.
Another thief smashed the show
window OF downtown jewelry store
and made off with $500 worth of
watches
Two white men, both holding pis-
tolls, took 500 from Simon Kimche
in his liquor shop at 600 Maryland
avenue S.W. They rifled the cash
register and the victims pockets
after forcing him to hold his hands
up and back into a corner, he said.
Bennie c. Caldwell, Al, colored,
2016 Fourteenth street NV, told
police two colored bandits held him
up as he was getting out of his car
at Tenth and U streets NV. early
today and escaped with $165 after
forcing him to drive them to the
300 block of o street NV. One of
the men, the victim said, carried a
shotgun and the other a revolver.
Held Up in Alley.
The pedestrian victim was Her
man Lichty of 1924 Beecher street
NV, who said he was approached
by a white man armed with a pistol
IN an alley between Benton and
Beecher streets. Mr.. Lichty said he
handed the man his wallet, but the
bandit snatched two IS bills from
the pocketbook and fed.
The thief overlooked note which
futtered to the street when he
grabbed the other bills.
The jewelry robbery was discovered
when Ernest Burk went to his store
at 6l4 Thirteenth street NV. this
morning. The thief had smashed
the show window, cutting himself on
the jagged glass, police said, judging
from blood splotches found at the
scene. A number of watches valued
at $500 were reported missing.
The stores local siren burglar
alarm, which was set off in the wind
storm last week and required efforts
of police and firemen to quiet it's
screaming, failed to make sound
when the theft occurred last night,
Mr.. Burk said.
Attacked by Three Men.
Three colored men threw Abe Sill
verman, 81, of Ais M street NV, to
the street near his home last night
and took $40 from his pockets. Clara
Bauer, 21, of 119 Massachusetts ave-
hue NV, told police a colored boy
snatched her pocketbook, containing
$3.50 as she was walking in the 200
block of H street NV. last night.
Andrew Webdale, 40, of o18 M
street NV, said he obliged a colored
man who asked for a match at
Tenth street and New York avenue
NV. early today. He was set upon
by the man and three companions.
who made off with s1.13 and Mr..
Webdales overcoat.
Arthur E. Bingler, taxicab
driver, of 1923 First street Sc, prac-
tically played game of tag early
today with fare he described as a
would-be bandit.
The driver told police he picked
up the man in the 700 block of Thir-
teenth street NV. and drove to
Fourteenth and K streets, where
upon the passenger stuck a hard
object" in Mr.. Bingler's neck.
Mr.. Bingler jumped from the cab
screaming. The man followed him
out commanding him to stop yelling.
Mr.. Bingler did not obey and the
man ran. Two policemen arrived
on the scene, and with Mr.. Bingler
took up the chase. The man was
cornered in a building in the 14O0
block OF L street and taken to the
second precinct station for ques-
tlonlng. Police found screwdriver
hidden behind a fire extinguisher on
the third floor of the building where
the man was captured. They figured
1t was the hard object" pushed in
the drivers neck.