Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-01-29
Angry Citizens
Fight Baltimore
Crime Wave
Protest to McKeIdin
And Legislature on
Murders, HoIdups
BY the Assoeiassd Press

BALTIMORE, Jan. 90. - A
wave of murders and robberies
in the Nations sixth largest city
has touched off an angry reac-
ton that spread today from the
homes of wrathful citizens to the
executive mansion and the State
Legislature.
The crime wave has reached
such proportions that Baltimore
women going out at night to
solicit contributions for the
Mothers March on Polio are ac-
companied by policemen, firemen
and volunteers from the civil de-
tense minute men.
The granddaughter of an early
Maryland Governor and her 65-
year-old companion were blud-
geoned to death by an ak burglar.
A popular librarian was sense
lessly Slashed to death in Is
cent robbery.
Marylanders Indignant.
These recent crimes and doz-
ems Of other burglaries, robberies
and knife assaults have alarmed
the city's law officers and citi-
zens.
"Send half Of the criminals to
the pen for 20 years and hang
the other half" wrote one in
dignant Marylander to a men,
Der OF the Legislature.
Yesterday five civic leaders of
Baltimore called on Gov. Nc
Keldin to demand an anti-crime
program. Even before their visit
the Governor had promised "the
full facilities of the State" in a
drive on crime.
His visitors complained that
magistrates sometimes fail to
provide sufficiently severe SEN
fences and of a need for more
police.
Meeting Set Tomorrow.
A special Maryland Senate
committee has scheduled a
meeting tomorrow in an attempt
to find a solution to the crime
problem.
Attending will be ranking
police officials, States attorneys
and judges from Baltimore City
and from Anne Arundel and
Baltimore Counties.
Meanwhile, State lawmakers
at Annapolis report an UNI
precedented volume in mail,
kilograms and telephone calls
demanding more severe criminal
laws
Two bills were proposed on the
floor of the General Assembly
yesterday. One would make the
carrying of a penknife with a
blade 8 inches or more as much
of a crime as the carrying of
8 loaded gun. The other would
require police licensing of the
purchase of pistols and revolverS.
Another bill slated to be in
troduced today would make a
sentence of at least one year
mandatory in unprovoked knife
assaults.
Policemen combed the city
yesterday and today with orders
to watch for weapon-carrying
Here are a few items from
yesterdays entries on the crime
log:
1. Robert Lee Terry, II, COL
ored, from Brooklyn pleaded
not guilty to the 75-cent MUIR
der-robbery of librarian Miss
Leonore M. Naylor.
2. Albert Lamkin, 38, colored,
from South Carolina, pleaded in
nocent to the ak murders of 80
year-old Miss Katherine Cradock
and her companion, Mrs. Jesse
Stockton, IS. Miss Cradock was
the granddaughter of Thomas
King Carroll, Governor of Mary
land in 1880.
3. Buster N. Day and George
F. Tolson, both colored, of
Arundel County were convicted
of first-degree murder for beat
ing to death an elderly Maryland
farmer. A third defendant, Will
lie Washington of Selma, Ala,
goes on trial for the same crime
tomorrow.
4. Baltimore police reported
four armed holdups. one of
them only six blocks from the
spot where Miss Naylor was
slain, and brought into court six
persons on deadly weanons