Attacks Women Tailor and Steals Clothing
Item
- Title
- Attacks Women Tailor and Steals Clothing
- Source
- Evening Star (DC)
- Date
- 1920-06-08
- page
- 18
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1920-06-08/ed-1/?sp=18&q=theft&r=0.326,0.049,0.454,0.164,0
- Crime
- Theft
- Subject
- theft; clothes; newspapers; car tires; money; bicycles
- Race of alleged offender
- black
- Gender of alleged offender
- male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- male and female alleged victims
- Law enforcement involved
- police
- Stage of the Legal System
- crime
- Location
- In-state; 503 I street, DC
- Length of story
- 167
- Description
- ATTACKS WOMAN TAILOR AND STEALS CLOTHING. Intruder Escapes After Intimidating Proprietress - Many Thefts Reported. A young colored man visited the tailoring establishment of Mrs. Lena Savage, 503 I street, yesterday afternoon, pretended he wanted to make a purchase and attacked the proprietress. She stated the intruder grabbed a gray suit of clothes and ran from the store. One hundred copies of The Sunday Star were stolen from Clifton Terrace early morning. Theft of automobile tires and inner tubes, valued at $190, was reported by James M. Miller. 2113 14th street. Three visits paid to the apartment of Mrs. H. Cohen, 2518 17th street, the past three weeks netted the intruder $73. Entrance was gained by using a duplicate key, Mrs. Cohen told the police. The taking of $20 from the home of Mrs. E. D. Stearns, 1336 Columbia road, last Saturday, was reported to police of the tenth precinct. Bicycle thefts were reported by Charles Holmes, 1931 9th street, and James H. Pate, 614 Tennessee avenue.
