Evening star., 1940-03-19
Delivery Man
knitted Batt|inq
Milk Thief
Three Captured in
Robbing Of z Toxis;
HoIdup Fake Exposed

A milk wagon driver was stabbed
early today by colored man he
had trapped in the act of stealing
milk in an apartment building in
the 500 block of Sixth street NE.
Melvin B. Sayre. "a, of 1884 Lewis
street NE. the driver, was removed
to Casualty Hospital for treatment
OF a knife wound in his left side.
His condition was undetermined,
but he was expected to recover.
Police started search for a light
skinned colored man, responsible
for the stabbing.
The man was believed to have
been cut on the head when Mr..
Sayre hit him With milk bottle.
Police reported that they had
captured three colored youths be-
heved to be responsible for robblng
two taxi drivers, had exposed as a
lake one reported holdup and had
linked a suspect captured yesterday
to several thefts here.
Another Conference.
SoillllllSSlOileI melvin y. HdZen
announced he would summon Mai.
Ernest w. Brown and other police
officers for another conference on
the crime situation here as the
war on lawlessness intensified.
The capture of the three colored
youths wanted in the taxi holdups
came within few minutes after the
first victim was Edmund A. Di
Carlo of 1887 North Capitol street,
who was robbed of 81 in the 21OO
block of Newport street NE.
A radio lookout for the trio that
overpowered him was broadcast, and
in the meantime the same three
men got into a cab driven by, Olaf
johnson of 1919 Eleventh street
NE. They obtained $3.50 from him
near Nineteenth and @ streets NV.
A Traffic Bureau cruiser picked up
three men answering the descrip-
ton of the trio wanted for robbing
Mr.. Di Carlo and headed for the
third precinct. They arrived to find
Mr.. johnson making report of his
robbery
Those are the guys" the cab
driver said as the men were marched
into the station.
Police said they had a confession
signed by James Keel, %, of 500 G
street Sc, in which he admitted
that the holdup he reported yester-
day was fake.
Keel, clerk in Sanitary grocery
store at 1926 Florida avenue NE.
had reported yesterday that a COL
ored man robbed him of S806 of the
stores receipts as he drove up to
Eighth and H streets NE. to make
a deposit in bank there.
Under questioning, police said, the
clerk admitted that he and COL
ored man had conspired to stage the
fake robbery Police arrested the
colored man and recovered $500 of
the money in a hiding place to
which Keel had directed them.
Discovery of several pocketbooks
and a watch which was identified as
that stolen from James L. Hough-
telling. Commissioner of Immigra-
ton, during a holdup on February
26 led police to believe that 23-
year-old Government typist who
was arrested yesterday might be
linked to several crimes.
The typist is Carl Wilson Burget,
who was employed at the Treasury
Department. He was held after a
battle with police. who sought to
question him in connection with two
street robberies in the early-morn-
Ing hours yesterday.
Searching his room at 1901 Massa-
chusetts avenue N. W., police dis
covered the watch and the purses.
They said they would put Burgct
in a lineup soon and ask victims
of recent holdups if they could
Identify the man.
Albert Kirk. 30, of Mount Rainier,
Md, brewery truck driver, re-
ported to police that a swarthy man
robbed him of sl58 of his collec-
, tions yesterday afternoon in an alley
in the 500 block of Seventh
street NV
Police planned to question Mr.
Kirk further today on the circum-
stances of the robbery. He told
police that the robber jumped on the
running board of his truck, pointed
a pistol at him and obtained the
cash.
A number of burglaries, pocket
book snatchings, etc, were reported
during the night. The largest haul
apparently was made by a burglar
who invaded two apartments in a
building, at 1925 Sixteenth street
NV, to obtain $3.50 worth of
jewelry from Mrs. Alice Lang and
Mary Flynn.
A 13-year-o'd boy reported that
two young colored boys threatened
him with knife and obtained ST
from him near the entrance to Gar
field Hospital yesterday afternoon.
Victim of the robbery was Herman
Rubenstein of 54o5 Fifth street NV.
A sneak-thief invaded St. Thomas
Episcopal Church at Eighteenth
and Church streets NW.-where
President Roosevelt often worships
and stole a small amount of
money from the poor box, along
with a fountain pen.
At Sibley Hospital the condition
of William E. Gladstone, Al, sales
man for a wholesale liquor dealer
here, was reported as unchanged
and still critical He was shot last
Saturday by two robbers who took
S703 in cash and checks from him
during daylight robbery on Blad-
ensburg road near Thirtieth
street NE.
Commissioner Hazen's conference
will he hold some time late this