Evening star., 1945-04-03
FBI Checks Prints
Found in Car Used
In Bank Robbery
Police Sergeant Locates
Auto in Seoton Court
After 3-Doy Search

feQeral bureau OF lnVeSLlgaL aLlOn
agents today were checking finger
prints found on sedan used by
bandits who robbed two National
Bank of Washington employees OF
$24,647 last Friday at Seventh and
c streets NV. The car was found
about 1880 pm. yesterday in the
200 block Of Seaton court NV. by
Sergt. G. s. Eccles of the first
precinct.
Seaton court is seven blocks from
the bank. A 1941 black Dodge
sedan, the car was towed to the
police headquarters garage for ex-
animation.
The sedan still bore a Maryland
license plate, 497-483, on the rear,
police said. Arnold H. Tielke, q
sailor who witnessed the holdup,
said this was the number he saw
on the bandit car as it sped away.
The car evidently was abandoned
alongside a red brick wall near the
Third street entrance to the court,
which is behind the Seaton School.
Waited on Indiana Avenue.
Police today suggested the prob
able route taken by the bandits
after they jumped in the car out
side Of the bank and sped away
with the money.
During the holdup, the car waited
on Indiana avenue NV, just
around the corner from C street,
and within a few blocks Of police
headquarters. Police believe that
after speeding up Indiana avenue,
the car veered south on Sixth street,
then Travelled east on c street and
from there to Seaton court.
This is borne out by statement
of an unidentified colored man who
told police he noticed the car
shortly before noon Friday. The
robbery occurred between 10:30 and
IL am.
The possibility has been advanced
that the car may have driven past
police headquarters only a few sec
onds before the first police cars had
left there for the scene of the rob-
berry.
Two Moved Car.
Walter j. Proctor. proprietor Of
an awning shop at 224 Seaton court,
said that the car first was parked
in front of his door and that he and
a friend moved 1t so that he could
get his own car out. He said an
employe of his, James Harris, saw
three men in the vicinity of the car
and that to his recollection this was
late Friday.
Samuel Alexander. "a. who oper-
ates small garage across from Mr..
Procter's shop. said he thought the
car was parked a few hundred feet
above his place when he opened his
garage at $3.50 am. Saturday.
The car was sought for three days.
When found 1t was unlocked and a
key was found in the ignition lock,
police said.
Two Sets Of Tags.
Two sets of District tags were
found in the rear seat. One set for
1914, was on the vehicle when 1t
was stolen from a parking lot at
Ninth and H streets NV. on March
8. the police said. According to
officers, the car is the property Of
Marvins Credit, Inc, 734 Seventh
street NV.
The other set of tags was ac-
credited to 1899 Oldsmobile, police
said. which was the property Of
Daniel A. Hannoch, Clifton Terrace
Apartments, store manager of Mar
wins Credit, Inc. Mr. Hannoch told
police he sold his own car some time
ago. but had kept the license tags
and had placed them in the trunk
of the firms automobile.
The $24,647 was taken from two
bank tellers as they left the bank
building for S. Kann Sons Co., de-
partment store nearby, with change
money in satchel.