Evening star., 1945-05-31
Lindsay TO View
Kidnap Suspects
At Lynchburg
Police Soy Sailor,
Two Ex-Servicemen
Have Admitted Crime

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Have Admitted Crime
Three men, a sailor and two dis.
charged servicemer who were arrest
ed yesterday in Lynchburg, Va, have
confessed kidnapping and robbing DR..
JanVier w. Lindsay, prominent phy-
Slclan, early Tuesday morning, In
spector Robert j. Barrett, chief of
detectives, told reporters today.
The trio, who are being held in
Lynchburg on charges of robbing a
cab driver, will face DR.. Lindsay
and four or five other recent victims
OF assault-robbery cases tonight.
One of the victims is a cab driver
robbed last week in the vicinity of
where Leon Avent, another cab
driver, was slain. Inspector Bar
rett said the cab driver robbed last
week described one of his assailants
as man with limp. One of the
men held in Lynchburg is said to
limp.
Find Two Automatics.
Inspector Barrett said two auto.
mates :e found on the men-a
.32-caliber and a .25-caliber. He
orought the smaller weapon with
him from Lynchburg in the hope IT
would prove link with one or more
unsolved District crimes.
The three men, arrested after thew
allegedly abandoned DR.. Lndsay's
car on the outskirts of Lynchburz
With two fiat tires and a burnt hat
terry cable, gave these names to DO
lice:
Rutherford R. Patrick, 49, of
Cleveland.
Freddie Franklin Martin, a sailor
attached to the U. S. S. Quincy.
who was wearing civilian clothes
when arrested. The detective chief
said inquiries about Martins leave
from the ship were being made.
James E. Doss of the 2600 block
OF University place NV, who. In
spector Barrett said, was arrested
mere last year and turned over to
virginia authorities on a robbery
ano attempted criminal assault
charge.
Served in Navy.
Inspector Barrett said both Doss
and Patrick had served in the Navy.
inspector Barrett said he had
pleced together this version of the
mems activities Immediately before
and after the kidnapping:
Last Monday night two plain
clothesmen-both detective ssrgeants
were making a routine INQUIRY of
a druggist in the vicinity of Four
teenth and Belmont streets NV. to
md out if he knew anybody with a
.2o-callber gun. The inquiry was in
connection with the Avent murder.
Doss, who was in the drugstore.
guessed the men were detectives
and when they left, asked the drug
glst what they wanted. The drug
glst told him they were looking for
a man with .25-caliber gun.
Wired for Money.
Doss got in touch with Martin and
Patrick. The latter, who was work.
ing In drugstore near Fourteenth
street and Park road, sent a wire to
his mother in Cleveland asking her
to wire him 500 Immediately. Pat
rlck 1elt that Washington was get
ting too hot" for him and he wanted
transportation money.
The three men. then packed their
bags and took them to the bus
terminal. Then they decided not
to wait for the money from Cleve-
land. They went from the terminal
to Fifteenth and M streets NV.
"nere they saw man sitting in
car parked in front Of the Colonial
Hotel
They went up to him and asked
Tor match. No, said the man. he
didn't have a match. Instead. he
produced an ice pick and the trio
backed away.
Just then they spotted a man
Dr. Lndsay-getting out of a car
across the street in front OF Episco-
pal Hospital.
Used Doctors Coupons.
They forced DR.. Lindsay back
into the car and after driving
around awhile, bought eight gallons
OF gas-using the doctors gas
coupons-and picked up their bags
at the bus terminal.
After dumping the doctor near
Accotink, Va, the trio proceeded
toward Lynchburg until one tire
blew out. They changed that one
and had passed the city limits of
Lynchburg when another tire went
fiat and the battery cable short
circuited. They then abandoned the
car.
Inspector Barrett said that WASH
ington police plan to press charges
OF auto theft and robbery against
the three men, while the FBI is to
seek an indictment against them
for violating the Federal kidnapping
law. According to an Associated
Press dispatch from Lynchburg, FBI
agents are there now questioning
the men.
Before going to Lynchburg early
yesterday, Inspector Barrett had OBJ.
tanned warrants from United States
Commissioner Needham c. Turnage
charging the trio with violating the
National Auto Theft Act.
Await Lynchburg Hearing.
The inspector left behind in
Lynchburg Detective Sergts. Rich
ard Mccarthy, George Cooper and
Otto Fuss in the hope of gaining
custody of the trio after a hearing
in Lynchburg Saturday on the rob-
berry charge there.
Patrick was quoted by the in
spector as admitting that his hand
kerchief and necktie were used to
bind and gag DR.. Lindsay, but all the
three insisted they had been mice"
to the physician. Found on the per-
sons of various of the three, accord
ing to Mr.. Barrett, were the physi-
clans billfold, pen and pencil set and
gasoline ration book.
One Of the unsolved cases Inspec-
tor Barrett had in mind IN bringing
the gun here for examination was
the robbery and murder last Febru-
ary OF two men, Edward F. Barker
an Pany Casbarian, in q trailer in a
parking lot at Fourteenth and N
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