Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-02
TWO MEN SHOT
IN PISTOL DUEL
ATDAIRY LUNCH
Merchant Policeman Brings
Down Bandit After Bullet
Pierces Right Hand.
SEVEN UNDER ARREST

With one holdup man in the City
hospital suffering from three bullet
wounds, a second alleged bandit un-
der arrest, five men held on vagrancy
charges, the police today are search
ing for the third bandit who at
tempted to rob the National Dairy
Lunch at 134 North Pennsylvania
street at 1:15 o'clock this morning.
William J. Clary, 5T38 Beechwood
avenue merchant policeman who was In
the kitchen of the lunchroom getting
warm when the robbers entered, shot
the leader of the gang three times in
! revolver duel that ended when the rob
be- fell to the floor and his two COM
panions fed from tle cafe. Clary was
wounded in the right hand.
The wounded man, the police allege, is
one of the men who earlier last night
robbed John n. Ward, a druggist in
North Indianapolis, at Thirty fourth
and Clifton streets, and a few minutes
later held up Jack Dooley, 754 Roache
street and F. f. Harve, 1912 West
Thirty fourth street. That the bandits
were gun men was evident in that they
Hred at street car budL stoppSu heAl
the scene of the Ward robbery, and also
fred at Dooley, who attempted to escape
by running.
WOUNDED MAN CAME
EERE EIGHT DAYS AGO.
The man wounded by the merchant
policemans bullets gave the name OF
Harvey Bowers He roomed at 443 East
Market street and said he came to In
dianapolis from Louisville KY, eight
days ago. He is a reddler. Charles
Tierney, 90, OF 25 North East street, ar
rested on a vagrancy charge soon after
the holdup today was positively identi-
fed by Harry Ellis 51S North Senate
avenue as one Of the robbers. Ellis was
in charge Of the lunchroom when the at
tempted holdup occurred. Joe Roach
AIS East Ohio street, suspected Of be
ing a friend Of the members of the ban
dit gang, is under arrest on the charge
of vagrancy.
The police went to the East Market
street roomng house, OF which I. Memo
las Is proprietor. and were told that
Bowers had occupied room there. They
were told that Mack McGinnis roomed
with Bowers.
McGinnis was not found, but the po-
Ilce1earned that, In company with Roach,
no had called Mt the rooming house early
this morning and then the two men left
i'm n hurry. Roach was found at Union
station. but will not talk except to ad-
nit that he was at the rooming house
with McGinnis.
Detectives Reilly and Duncan said to-
day the shooting Of Bowers had given
the police information that would clear
mn five holdups committed in this city
since Dec. H. These holdups are In ad-
dition TO the three last night and early
today. and are as follows;
Dec. u, Clyde r. Hopper, 423 East
Pratt street, held up on Capitol avenue
near st. Clair street by three men, who
covered him with revolvers. The robbers
obtained no moEey.
Dec. 25, at midnight, Glenwood Bor-
ders, 2454 Park avenue halted by two
white men on Fifteenth street near
Broadway His watch was stolen.
DOCTOR ACCEPTS
LIFT AND Is ROBBED.
Dec %, DR.. Earl Gilchrist, 32S Lay
man avenue, was waiting for street
car at Central avenue and Sixteenth
street when two men in a light car
stopped and asked If he wanted to ride
downtown lie accepted the invitation
and was driven to Thirteenth and New
Jersey streets, where they held him up
and robbed him of S25, a watch and a
check for $25.
| Dec 27, two men stepped from an auto
at Alabama and East streets and halted
/ c. NJ. McCampbell, 224 East Walnut street
and took 81 from him.
Jan. I. John Heidenrich, 1926 East
Washington street, returning home from
picture show, was stopped Mt his door
step. Not obtaining as much money as
they thought they should have found
in his pockets, the robbers jerked his
watch chain from him. taking the chain
and an Elk fob. The chain broke and
they did not get the watch. They fired
at c. r. Meek, 3637 Coliseum street, who
attempted to pursue them.
When four men attempted to see Joe
Roach, one OF the suspects under arrest,
To-day, they were arrested by Detectives
Mullin and Rarnaby, and are held on
the charges of vagrancy. They gave the
names of Fred Koch, "a, and Eugene
Arnold, %, both of Louisville, KY; Joe
Keller SO. III North Noble street. and
Wilfred Jekel, %, of 1929 Deloss street.
All said they were peddlers Roach's
real name, the police say, is Joe Burke,
and he is known as "Cocky" by all the
peddlers In the eastern part of the city.
The gun battle in which Merchant
Policeman C1ary wounded Bowers ana
was himself shot in the right hand, was
one Of the most daring in local police
annals. Clary was standing I'm the
kitchen when three men entered the
lunchroom. The counter extends across
the width of the room, with an opening
at the south end. A partition directly
behind the counter separates the kitchen
from the remainder of the room and at
each end of the partition is a doorway.
Clary was near the north doorway,
while the bandit entered the kitchen
through the south doorway
FIRST ORDERED
Chilli, THEN COFFEE.
Ellis was at the counter. The man,
later identified as Charles IIerney, said:
I'VE want a dollars worth of chilli" and
he put a dollar on the glass show case
Of the lunch counter. according to Ellis.
The man then added: "Draw me a cup
Of black Coffee" Ellis said.
Harold Pipkin, 1905 Cottage avenue,
cook, was in the kitchen. Pipkin and
Ellis started to prepare the chilli when
second man. later identified as Bow
ers walked through the opening of the
lunch counter and to the south doorway
of the partition. In his hand he held
a revolver.
"Stick up your hands and be d.
quick about it," he commanded. Ellis
and Pipkin were standing near together
and close to the robher. They held up
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