Evening star., 1950-04-12
Second Suspect Held
In $1,000 Ho|dup Of
Insurance Company

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professional boxer as the suspected
accomplice of a man captured after
a running gun battle yesterday in
a $4,000 holdup of an insurance
company.
Andrew Carlos Ware, %, colored,
who was captured in a vacant
house few blocks from the scene
of the robbery after exchanging
shots with policemen, Is scheduled
to be arraigned in Municipal Court
later today on charges of robbery
with force and violence and assault
with intent to kill.
Most of the loot was dropped by
Ware as he fed and recovered
later by police.
The boxer suspect arrested by
robbery squad detectives early to-
day told police he had fought pro-
fessional bouts in Madison Square
Garden. He denied any knowledge
of the robbery. He will be viewed
by witnesses in a police lineup
later today.
Ware Faces Two Lineups.
Ware appeared in two lineups at
headquarters last night. The first
one was held so police could check
on him, and the second one was
arranged so eight victims of re-
cent holdups could look at Ware.
All failed to identify him as being
connected with the past crimes,
however, according to Capt. Robert
v. Murray. assistant chief Of de-
tectives.
Ware is accused specifically o1
the crimes in which he was caught
yesterday. less than 10 minutes
after the firm, the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Co.. 2002
Eleventh street NV. was robbed
Of $1.043 in cash and $1,359- in
checks.
l. Ware was found to have a rec
ord involving one case of receiving
stolen property and another of
housebreaking. During the first
lineup, he was described as being
on good time" having been re-
leased for good conduct from
an unspecified prison sentence for
one of his earlier crimes.
Witnesses identified Ware as
one of the bandits. after he was
cornered under a bed in an empty
three-story house in the 1900 block
of Thirteenth street NV, about
pm. yesterday. He held Police
man Thomas F. Walker, colored
Of No. 13 precinct at bay, shot at
his other pursuers and then dived
through a closed window.
Ware and his alleged accom-
plice were said by police to have
walked into the second floor office
of the insurance firm. where Mrs
Britannia Parmes, 430 Irving street
NV. and Mrs. Maude L. Reed
1928 East Capitol street, were
alone. Both of the men carried
revolvers and told Mrs. Parmes to
lie on the floor. police said. Then
they scooped up bags of money
from the desk. it was said.
AS the bandits fled, Mrs. Reed
cried out, and three attorneys in
the building Joined in the chase,
police said. But at Eleventh and
v streets NV. the bandits sep
arated, and the unknown one
escaped in a taxicab, according
to officers.
Loot Found in Alley.
Two of the lawyers and Po-
liceman Walker subsequently cor
nered a man later identified as
Ware in an alley behind the 1900
block of U street NV. Ware then
is alleged to have pulled his gun
and forced the policeman up
against the side of a building
while attempting to escape.
The officer drew his pistol and
took up the chase again. After
an exchange of gunfire. Ware
dropped his gun and dived
through a closed basement win
dow at 1885 Thirteenth street
NV. Other police then arrived.
With drawn pistols, they entered
the building through the smashed
window. kicked in several locked
doors in the house and eventually
found Ware in the back room OF
the third floor, where he was
hiding.
Police found practically all the
loot in the alley, they said.
Soon afterward, Sergt. Roy
Truitt of Andrews Air Force Base
identified the prisoner as one OF
pair of men he chased after
catching them leaving his apart
ment with an overcoat.