Evening star., 1948-03-01
Hunt for Killers
0fCabIl1en Turns
To Baltimore
Shooting Of Driver
There Believed Linked
To District Crimes

Police searching for the killers
OF two Washington taxicab drivers
turned their attention to Baltimore
today with the belief that one of the
gunman shot q cabbie there last
night.
At the same time, they questioned
six suspects here in connection with
the slayings and q rapid-fire double
holdup Of another cab driver and
a filling station last night.
Robbery detail detectives said the
Baltimore incident was so like those
here they had every reason to
believe the ruthless robber killers
had transferred operations to the
Maryland city.
= Driver Shot Twice.
Peter Finnegan, "a, the Baltimore
driver, was shot twice after a col
ored man had forced him to drive
near a cemetery in South Balti-
more. Ordering the driver out OF
the car, the bandit took $12 and
shot him. After Mr.. Finnegan fell
to the ground, the robber shot him
in the arm and fired one wild shot.
His condition was described as fair.
The double holdup occurred here
within Is minutes last night, caus-
ing police to step up their search
for two gunmen who beat and shot
to death two cabbies Friday night.
The filling station holdup last
night ended with the gunman in
flight after he had shot one OF
the two attendants in the arm dur
ing scuffie. The bandit was beaten
about the face and head with
hammer, and probably marked.
Gun at Drivers Head.
At 1915 pm. he had hailed a
cab driven by David B. Ray, 43
colored, of 57O6 Southern avenue
Sc, at Seventh and P streets NV
Placing gun at the drivers head
he forced him to drive into an
alley in the 200 block of o street
NV, took SIS and forced Mr.. Ray
from the cab.
Fifteen minutes later he entered
the filling station at Georgia avenue
and Kenyon street NV, and stuck
the gun into the back of Clinton
Rivers, SO, colored, of 3535 TRir-
teenth street NV.
Mr.. Rivers wheeled and caught
hold of the gun. While they strug-
gled for its possession, the second
attendant, Freeman Coble, 1S, col
ored, came up with hammer
While he was striking the bandit,
the gun was discharged, slightly
wounding Mr.. Coble in the right
forearm. He was treated at Freed
mans Hospital and released.
Drops Pistol in Flight.
Dashing away, the holdup mar
dropped the .32-caliber pistol ane
his coat. He was described as 9
Elight-skinned colored man, 20 to q
years old. S feet inches tall, with
sharp features. - AZ.
The description generally" f1ttec
that of one of the two men sought
for the Staying of the two cat
drivers, police said.
One OF tne men QueStloIleo tooas
was John Layton Jacobs, 81, colored
who was arrested last night anc
charged with robbing grocery store
at 344 H street SW. January "a
Police were holding him on suspicion
of being the lookout" man while
two others armed with shotguns
robbed the store of 500.
Victims Describe Attackers.
The cab drivers slain in the same
neighborhood Friday night were
James Hardy, 80, colored, of SAT
G. street NE, and Howard Jones
st. colored, of AIT Irving street NV
Mr.. Hardy lived until Saturday
night and gave police description
of his attackers. He had been thrown
from his cab down railroad en-
bankment near New Jersey avenue
and I streets Sc.
Shot through the head with a
large caliber pistol, Mr.. Jones had
died instantly. His body was found
in an alley near Second and Canal
streets Sc.