Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-10
FIND LEAD TO
BANK BANDITS
WHEREABOUTS
Police Get Tip From Man
Who May Have Seen
Them.
HOLD SEVERAL CLEWS

Important information reached lnspec-
tor of Detectives Herbert Fletcher today
that may prove to be a clew that VIII
lead to the police getting a line" on the
Beech Grove bank robbers, who obtained
S22, ,9O916 in a daring daylight hold-up
Friday.
Ben VaIpelt. Waldron. notified Chief
Of Police Thompson, Shelbyville, he was
driving his automobile near Middleton
about nine miles south Of Shelbyville Fri
day and that he saw four men, three
white men and one negro, all well dressed,
standing near a large automobile. The
men evidently had tire trouble and were
making repairs Vaupelt knew nothing
of the Beech Grove robbery at that time
and thought nothing of the incident until
late last night when banker at wal
dron told him of the robbery. Chief
Thompson notified Inspector Fletcher by
telephone.
The car described by Vanpelt CORE
spends to the one that the police heard
OF today. Three white men and a negro
for three or four days have been driv-
ing around the city and scouting near
Beech Grove In a big Packard touring
car. according to information reaching
the officers They asked several per-
sons where they could ront private
garage Where this garage was located
the police have not learned. 1t Is be-
ueved the bank robbers switched from
the Hudson automobile stolen Thursday, :,
and which they used in making the esq
cape after the robbery, to the Packard,
which probably YVES parked near Elmer
son avenue anI Tenth street, where the
Hudson car was abandoned.
Delay in notifying the indianapolis
police department is partially blamed
by the officers for the escape Of the
bandits. The robbery was committed at
Beech Grove at either 1888 or II o'clock
yesterday morning. The records Of the
police show the telephone call telling OF
the hoIdup was received at II 30 o'clock.
Telephone Sergt Oscar Merrill imme-
diately notified Lieutenant Houston, act
ing captain and the emergency machine
with Lieutenant McMurtry, Sergeant
Burk and a squad of detectives and
motor policemen were sent to Beech
Grove. The informant hung up as Goon
as the robbery had been reported and
the police did not know what kind OF
car the bandit used until the emergency
squad had reached the bank and tele
phoned back to police headquarters in
this city.
Automobile detectives. as soon as they
heard of the hold-up and received a de-
ofliHlluH VI tue bdHult ) tdAs huSpeNltu II
was the automobile owned by William 7.
Suckow, Jr.. Franklin, which had been
reported stolen the day before, from near
the Statehouse. The car was found at
Emerson avenue and Tenth streets, at
. 80 o'clock Friday afternoon. The In
diana license plate had been replaced by
an Ohio license plate. Suckow identified
the car as his The bandits had evident
ly used the old trick of deserting a stolen
high powered automobile and escaped
in another car. the description of which
the police were unable TO obtain.
POLICE LOOK
INTO TWO CLEWS.
Two possible clews were investigated
by detectives during the night. The
emergency squad received a report that
at Tibbs avenue and Washington street
four men were sleeping in an automobile
The men proved to be four negroes whose
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