Evening star., 1949-04-23
Gambling Probe
WitnessGageed,
Gas Jets Opened
Brentwood Policemen
Believes Assoilonts
Linked Him With Foy

A. found gakgvd and hsgslts' Ted
II has 1sogae cary sss&Ae sllh eas
1ow 'iae from to4a open b4snefs
He aa4d ne er.lcyct3 las aA>&.sas.sA
thought he was wtsksns goy United
States Attorney Ocofse Morfss Pay
IN ilIs gambling tH,vs{lga ton
which ! dchn,tr}y am not He
had hswn Questioned tuEre esg girr
ul!s Scek however hy TIE Prince
0eoTsea County grand lasy sn lss
gambling investigation
Apparently unlnluret but gras-
Gy, ScTgt Biaek>toEe smith -.
ass released from his own hand
cuffs by tao Prince GEORGES
County po.loemeu
The policemen PITS James II.
Burgess and William T.. Wl>cnan,
said they answered call "a slo0
Utah avenue, Brentwood. VI hen a
telephone operator reported tina
phone al that address vas or the
hook
Threatened Over Phone.
Sergt Smith said he had ~
ceired nTeatening telephone
cali Thursday nistt but vas not
scared. He told this story OF what
happened early today
i drove up in front OF the house
At 4 O'Clock this morning The
landlord tBaScum n RaAnsl wAs
walking In his door as went up
stairs.
i snapped on 4 ilght IN the
hall. went into my room and
snapped on the light there and
then went out and turned on the
hall light.
i took OF my clothes and vent
into the bathroom had turned
and started out OF the bathroom
when some one grabbed me from,
behind. A hand was put over my
and my arms we're pulled
my back.
Gotten Stuffed In Mouth.
I know there was more than
one of them because I felt more
than two hands. ] didn't See
them because the room MAS dark.
! don't remember noticing the
lisht had been turned of.
They stuffed cotton in my
mouth and put strip of adhesive
tape on It TO complete the gag.
They took my own handouts.
which I'd left on the dresser. and
me with my hands be-
hind my back. They bound my
ankles together with adhesive tape
and left me lyins on the floor in
'front.' Of the dresser. face down.
Il don't remember hearing them
20 into the kitchen but ! smelled
saS
Il wrieRled and kqulrmed my
way out OF the room To the tslr-
phone in the upstairs hall. I
over n chair and n small
telephone table and got the phone
around behind me was able To
lial operator heard the click
md the operator came Oh but
say anything because
II the gaR.
Stumblrs Downstairs.
Il finally broke the tape on my
ankles and stumbled downstairs in
'horts and fell out on the front
porch. The Roanes came out
hen.
4 believe the idea waA not 10
,ut me out OF the way but 10 scare
ne. Somebody told thrse people
hat ! know lot about police
raft and gambling.
There were no Siens OF q strus-
lie In Sergt. Smiths bedroom. He
aid the window in hln room
might have been open . few
inches al the time his asSaiiants
urned on the gas
States Attorney A. Gwynn Bowie
1 Prince Georges County vent TO
iergt. Smiths home during the
morning 70 question the police
aan. He WAS joined by IL.
,harIes n. Thomson. county chief
( detectives. and Detective Earl
iuber o; the county force serKt.
'nith was questioned as he lay In
ed recovering from his expert
snce.
The telephone company sATe
his account Of their part In the
ariy morning incident:
About AIS am. Mira. Agnes
Irook. an operator At The Hyatts-
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