Evening star., 1949-11-26
Coup|eSeized ono Coast
In Emery Hotel Ho|dup
And Car Theft Here

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: An attractive torch singer from
Chicago and a wandering trumpet
player are being held in Los An
geles today awaiting extradition
to Washington on charges of rob-
bing the night clerk at the Emery
Hotel here and theft of a con-
vertible coupe later abandoned
near Lynchburg, Va.
Held on $4,000 bond each,
awaiting removal hearings on the
charge of driving the stolen car
across a State line, are Delight
Francine Mitchell, %, and Keith
Charles Warren, %, who said his
home was at Kearney, Nebr.
During coast coast crime
spree the girl used the aliases of
Delight F. Toneman and Ginger
Conway, according to the FBI.
Warren, the FBI said, also was
known as James K. Warren, Tony
Caruso and Delbert F. Toneman.
File Card Removed.
The FBI said the couple has
admitted holding up the night
clerk of the Emery Hotel, 1912 G
street NV, last September 6
After taking S48 from D. F. Quinn
the clerk, the pair removed theil
registration card from hotel files
Mr.. Quinn, however, remembered
they used the name Toneman.
The FBI started on the couple s
trail a few hours later. when the
car stolen in the District was
found in Virginia. The front end
was smashed in and a blood
soaked towel bearing the Emery
Hotels name was found in the
car.
Police at first feared they might
have a murder investigation on
their hands. but subsequent e&
animation showed the blood was
that of a horse the car had struck.
The trail then led to Nassau
County, N Y. where a couple
named Robert and Elsie Gallant
had been arrested on suspicion of
burglaries. The Gallants had come
East in a stolen car and under
FBI questioning they said they
had made the trip with a couple
named Toneman. Toneman, it
was said. had supplied the car.
Picture Sent Out.
When the Gallant woman said
she had also known the other
woman in the car as Delight
Francine Mitchell, the FBI
checked all their files. They found
that last summer Mrs. Grace
Mutchell Condie of Chicago had
reported her daughter, Delight
Francine Mitchell. as missing.
She had gone south, the report
said, with a TONY Caruso." who
said he played with Charlie
Spivak's orchestra and could get
the girl a job as vocalist with the
nationally known orchestra.
Pictures of the Mitchell girl
were sent throughout the country.
Mr. Quinn identified her picture
as that Of the girl who helped to
rob him, and police in Reno, New,
said the picture was that of Gin
ger Conway" a gambling house
"shill' girl.
Gard Found in Hotel.
Reno police said card with
the name, James K. Warren,
Hollywood, Calf" had been found
in the hotel room which the girl
had suddenly vacated without
paying her bill.
The search then turned to Hol-
lywood, where FBI agents saw a
girl on the street Wednesday
night who resembled the picture
of Delight Francine Mitchell. She
was arrested, and admitted the
Washington thefts, the FBI said.
Warren was arrested a short time
later.
The FBI said Warren has been
arrested previously for imperson-
ating an FBI officer, for desertion
from the Army and on charges of
adultery and bigamy.
An FBI spokesman said the
couple had agreed to plead guilty
in Los Angeles to the car theft
charge. Washington police said
they planned to press the robbery
charge also.