Evening star., 1950-09-29
Son Of Official
Arrested on 265
Robbery Counts

K0DDeN I0unTS
Boy, IS, Is Seized
In Bed After Fleeing
z Postal Inspectors
A 15-year-old boy, son of a Gov
ernment official, today awaited
arraignment in Juvenile Court on
some 265 charges of various forms
of robbery.
He called his father an imprint
able name in the presence of his
mother last night at police head
quarters after he surrendered to a
square cop" after his escape from
two postal inspectors Sunday
night.
The clean-cut looking youth la
mented the fact that he had been
unable to "buy a rod" and told
detectives that IL he had been able
to get a gun his career in crime
would not have been cut short.
Other Boys Implicated.
Police said the boy implicated
two other 15-year-old boys, sons
of well-to-do families in his
Eeighborhood. He said they
helped him on "just a few" jobs
but were interested in careers OF
crime. One of those implicated
police said. is the son of recently
deceased and widely known ply
sician, and the other is the scion
of wealthy parents who have en-
rolled him in an expensive school
in New York.
Police said they planned to
bring all the youths together with
their parents for conference
which they hoped might help them
solve past crimes and find means
OF preventing future ones.
Got Liberal Allowance.
Precinct Detective Everett Sad
ler of No. 8 precinct to whom the
youth surrendered said the case
presented one of the unfathom-
able mysteries of juvenile delin-
quency with which police are con-
fronted.
The boy said he was given a lib
eral allowance by his parents. He
attended expensive private schools
and was always well dressed.
But his allowance, the youth
said, was not large enough to
satisfy his craving to play pin ball
machines. SO he became a GRIM
inal about year and a half ago.
Police said he has confessed to
200 cases of larceny-most of
them involving thefts from apart
ment house mail boxes-50 cases
of HOUSEKEEPING and Is purse
snatchings.
Loot Totaled $1,000.
Talking freely to Detective Sad
Ter. the youth said his loot totaled
more than $1,000. all of which
was spent on pinball machines,
sodas. comic books and bets on
baseball games.
He said he embarked on his
criminal career after a boy friend
told him he had been obtaining
extra spending money by stealing
mail from apartment houses.
He found a 12-year-old colored
youth who delivered newspapers
in the Connecticut avenue area
and accompanied him on his route.
While the boy delivered papers,
the arrested boy would loot mail
boxes. He said he took only let
terS containing cash and packages
containing articles which he
could sell.
Shared Loot.
| In the evening when the news
paper boy collected for his news
papers, the arrested youth said he
would enter apartments where no
one responded to knocks on the
door and steal whatever cash he
could find. He gave the news
paper boy a small share of his loot.
Detective Sadler recognized the
boy looting an automobile Saturday
night. The boy fled and OUTRAGED
the detective. Mr.. Sadler went to
the boys home and asked his
father to bring him to the precinct.
The father called about / pm. and
said his son had come home and
gone to bed.
When policemen entered the
bedroom. the youth threw off his
bedcovers and launched into a
TRADE of filthy language against
his parents.
Couldn't Bluff Police.
At the precinct policemen asked
him why he had talked so meanly
to his parents. He said:
II could bluff them and !
thought could bluff you, too."
Postal inspectors took the youth
on tour of the apartment he said
he had looted yesterday and he
broke away from them. Four
hours later he telephoned Detec-
tive, Sadler from Alexandria and
said he was ready to surrender.
He told Sadler he had cached $3.50
in cash and seven wrist watches
in the base of street light post
on Connecticut avenue as an es-
cape fund. When he looked for
the money it was gone, he said.
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