Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-05
BOY BANDITS
RUN AS VICTIM
CALLS FOR COPS
Four Youths Said to Have
Confessed Efforts in Two
HOld-ups.

Two unsuccessful attempts at hold ups
resulted in the arrest Of four alleged boy
bandits during the night. The police
also were called upon to investigate
report of a woman being iured into
taxicab, held up and robbed. Numerous
petty thefts, including two pickpocket
Jobs. were reported to the police in the
afternoon Of Fourth of July activities.
Charles Haas POOP Ashland avenue,
evaded four would-be holdu men on
Twentieth street near College avenue at
II 80 o'clock His calls for the police re-
suited in the capture of four youths
who confessed, police say, that they had
attempted to held up and rob Easil Rob-
ertson, 1855 Roach street, night man at
a filing station at Thirtieth and Meridian
streets at 10 80 o'clock.
Robertson was sitting outside the ELL
ing station when four men wearing hand
kerchiefs across their faces appeared, and
one of them covered him with an auto
matte pistol Robertson ran into the
building and the would be robbers, be-
lieving he was about to call the polics,
ran east in Thirtieth street and escaped
before Motorpolicemen Finneran and Sell
fert arrived
KNOWN AS THE
WILLARD PARK GANG.
The youths under arrest gave their
names as Walter Morris. H. 43S Casters
avenue: Carl Carl Rodewald 10. 565 North
Rural street; Marvin Schock. 20, 43e
North Rural street; Paul Hoffman, II,
0J4 East Georgia street. They are charged
with robbery and conspiring to commit
a felony They are known as the willard
Park gang The police say all have
been identified and that they admit their
part in the hold ups.
Haas had just left a College avenue
street car and was walking east in
Twentieth street when four men halted
him. one covering him with an auto
matte Haas lodged behind a telephone
pole and yelled "Pohcei" The would
be bandits became frightened and ran,
two going east and two west. The two
that ran west passed James Chapel,
2004 College avenue, and Walter Booker,
1910 Central avenue, who obtained
good look at them and later identified
them as Morris and Rodewald Sergeant
Johnson and the emergency squad picked
up two suspects while en- route to the
scene of the hold-up. These men were
Morris and Rodewald They were iden-
tilted by Haas, Chapel and Booker.
They were questioned by the police and
confessed, Their confession resulted in
the arrest OF Schock and Hoffman, who
this morning. The two last men to be
arrested also confessed.
While all claimed that the attempted
robberies were their first still one OF
( those arrested said that RodewaId and
Hoffman had committed other hold-ups.
The police believe that these two are the
men who held up and robbed George W.
Crofts, 262 South Senate avenue, at VIII
lard Park on the night Of April %.
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tured last night. Rodewald was found
to be carrying a blackjack" Schock
was identified as the man who held the
pistol which covered Haas. This weapon,
an automatic. was found IN his coat
pocket when the police searched his
clothing at his home early today.
WOMAN ROBBED
IN TANICAB.
Mrs Daisey Brook. 1865 Cottage ave
nue.. was lured into a taxi last midnight,
4 held up and robbed Of SO. She did not
report the hold up to the police until
early today when Motorpolicemen Russell
and Amsden were called to her home Mrs.
Brook told the police that while she was
downtown last night a strange man fol-
lowed her around 1t was shortly be-
fore midnight while she was waiting fol-
a street car at Washington and Pennsyl-
u
her and insisted IN talking to her She
tried to get away from him when a
stranger appeared and asked her whether
she was in trouble. The man who had
m0lested her hurried away and the
stranger, hearing her story, offered to take
her home in his taxi cab. He led the way
| to the Monument Circle where she got in
his taxi
I@ser in the night he took her purse
from her and took SIS He overlooked
SO that remained in the purse
Mrs. A NJ Jackson l247 Park avenue,
reported that a thief stole q beaded purse
from her automobile which was parked in
Riverside Park last night. The purse
was valued at $50
Thomas Figg, ga East Market Street,
was robbed by pickpocket while on a
Broad Ripple street car last night His
purse contained SIS,
William BARLEY, 1888 College avenue,
told the police that his automobile was
parked at the State Playground and that
thief stole a basket containing a vacuum
bottle and blanket, valued at SIS.
Roy Waltz. 2640 Roder street, went
swimming at Twenty Sixth street and
White river, yesterday evening. Some
one stole his shoes and his eyeglasses.
Harry Nicou told the police that his
locker at the Riverside Canoe Club had
been broken into yesterday. He said
twelve feather pillows had disappeared
from the locker Six of these were found
In locker owned by Herman Olsen, 1928
Roach street Olsen was arrested on a
charge of vagrancy and is held for in
vestigation. The other six pillows were
found in two other lockers and the po-
lice say two other men will lie arrested.