Roland P SKINNER

Birth: 22 MAR 1882, ,,VA
Death: 10 JAN 1936, Washington,,DC

                        _John Richard SKINNER _
 _James Peter SKINNER _|
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|--Roland P SKINNER 
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! Manuscript: Descendants of Peter and Sarah (Roberts) Skinner, Loudon County, Virgina, of Richard and Adeline (Van Deventer) Skinner of Cornelius Skinner by Doris Seymour Wahl, date unknown. Contemporary Records: Newspaper clippings - Police hold eight in filling station bandit slaying - Watchman saw robbers kill R P Skinner and flee without loot - Operator shot down resisting two men - victim loses life, but saves $62 - Link to other shoting probed. Eight colored persons, one a woman were under arrest today as police investigated the murder of Roland P Skinner, 53, of 2927 26th St, northeast, who was shot last night by two colored bandits in an attempted hold-up of his filling station at Florida Avenue and P Street Northeast. The suspects, all arrested in Southwest Washington, were held for questioning by homicide squad detectives. The bandits fled empty-handed from the station leaving Skinner lying on the runway with bullets through his heart and abdomen. Circumstances of the shooting were almos identical with those of the hold-up Monday night of a Maryland Avenue filling station, where Steve Shelton, former George Washington University football player was seriously wounded when he fought with two colored men who robbed him of $60.00. Shelton is still in Providence Hospital with a wound in his abdomen. His condition today was said to be improved. Skinner draws gun - Skinner had just finished greasing a car when the bandits walked into the station. They drew revolvers and demanded his money. As Skinner pulled a pistol from his overalls, one of the hold-up men fired four shots in rapid succession, two of them taking effect. Second Precinct Policemen H H Hodge and J F Ehlman found Skinner and rushed him to Sibley Hospital in a patrol wagon. He was dead on arrival. The filling station owner's gun was discovered near his body. It had not been fired. A bent grease gun, presumably used by Skinner as he battled his assailants, also was lying nearby. When the bandits fled they failed to make any attempt to rob Skinner, he had $62.00 in his pocket. A former employee of a northeast market, Skinner had bought the filling station only two months ago. His wife died about a year ago. Surviving is a son, J Olan Skinner. Skinner, Roland P. A special communication of Anacostia Lodge #21, FAAM is called for 12:45 o'clock, Tuesday, January 14, 1936, to attend services of our departed brother, Roland P Skinner, PM. By order of the worshipful master. J D Beveridge, Jr, Secretary

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