Evening star., 1941-06-28
Gir|Attacked
In College Park;
Escort Bound
HoIdup at Branch
Laundry on Ninth
Street Fooled

DTdnCn laundry on Nlnth street.
Meantime James r. Mckenzie.
81, colored, was held here under
one charge of criminal assault and
two charges of robbery in two pre-
vious hold-up cases on Fourteenth
street NV.
The young couple in College Park
was approached by a colored man
as they were parked in an automo-
bile at an early hour. According to
police reports he tied up the man
IN a woods and criminally assaulted
the young woman, visitor from
out of the city. Both were taken to
Providence Hospital for treatment.
The assailant was described as
feet 10 inches tall. weighing about
IT'S pounds, glnger-colored skin,
wearing blue trousers, white shirt
and gray hat.
Posed as Policeman.
Prince Georges police said the
man. H lie Roy Hacker. a brick
plant bookkeeper of Muirkirk. and
woman friend were parked near the
College Park Airport between ! and
2 m
According to Prince Georges
County police. the colored man said
he was a policeman and got in the
car, owned and driven by the
woman, ordering them to drive 10
the police station at Hyattsville.
When they got to a wooded section
on a road near College Park airport.
however, he directed the woman to
stop the car, forced them to walk
into the woods about 500 yards from
the road. There, police said. he
robbed the woman of $50 and the
man of s26.
Police were told the colored man
then beat Mr. Hacker with his fists.
tied his wrists with Mr.. Hacker
necktie. and threw him into q small
creek. Then he assaulted the vom-
an. threatening her with his pistol
The assailant fed on foot and the
woman went TO the Washington In
stitute of Technology nearby and
notified a night watchman, who
summoned police. Shortly after
ward. her companion made his way
out of the woods
State and county police werc
/ searching woods in the area.
Screams Frighten Bandit.
The attempted holdup at 1901
Ninth street NV, branch store CT
the Elite Laundry. was frustrated By
Mrs Gladys Matthews, colored at
tendant, who screamed, frightening
off the intruder. He wore dark
glasses with side blinkers." similar
to the glasses worn by the colored
bandit or bandits who have held up
two other stores on Fourteenth
street recently.
Mrs. Matthews said the colored
man entered the store and asked
for change for a quarter. He had
a handkerchief in his hand with a
gun protruding from it, she said.
Il screamed. He yelled at me,
Shut up but I kept on screaming
He finally got scared and went out
of the store He turned left and
went around the corner on N street
Then I turned on a burglar alarm
which rang a bell outside the store"
NAN described 10 fOlice.
The bandit was described to
police as being about feet
inches tall and weighing lao pounds.
He wore brown pants, sport shirt
with a handkerchief around the
neck.
Later on, Mrs. Matthews was in
formed by someone who came into
hn no
seen leaving the store and entering
an automobile in which another
colored man was waiting. They
both were reported to have driven
of westward on N street NV.
Charges against Mckenzie were
lodged against him by police here
last night. following his identifica-
ton in police lineup as the man
who attacked and robbed one
woman and robbed another, in the
two Fourteenth street cases.
Singled Out of Line.
Mckenzie was singled out of
line of six prisoners by the two
women who were separated at the
time they viewed him. Each said
she was positive in her identity.
One of the women was held I'D.
gagged and assaulted Tuesday
afternoon while she worked alone
as clerk in a. cleaning and dyeing
establishment in the 3400 block of
Fourteenth street NV. The other.
employed in laundry in the 1900
block of the same street, was robbed
the next morning by a bandit of
similar description who fed after
he had broken the glass to the
front door in trying to close it.
Capt. Ira E. Keck, acting chief
OF detectives, said after the lineup
ne believed there was no question
that Mckenzie is the man wanted
in the two cases. The suspect first
was pointed out by the two women
as they cruised about the city with
detectives Thursday afternoon. They
spled him as he loitered in front of
a cleaning establishment at Georgia
avenue and Columbia road NV.
Paraded Before Robbery Victims.
Before he was viewed individually
by the two women last night, Nc
Kenzie was brought before number
of recent robbery and attack VIC
Tins, none of whom was able to
identify him or any of the other
prisoners with him as the man who
had molested them.
After the lineup. in which IL men
were paraded about a stage in a
specially-light room on the third
floor of the Municipal Center Build
ing, the room was cleared of all but
few persons. The woman who was
robbed at the laundry then was
ushered in by detectives and seated.
All lights except those on the stage
were extinguished and the prisoners
were marched in. Mckenzie was
the second man 10 enter In q nne
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