Indiana daily times., 1921-04-09
FILLING STATION
BANDITS WORK
BATTLES POLICE
Continued Hold-ups Leads to
Belief of Organized
Gang Work.
TWO TRIALS LAST NIGHT

The successful robbery of a gasoline
filling station last night and an unsuc-
cessful attempt at another place showed
that the filling station bandits" still are
managing to elude the police. Not since
the scores of holdups that marked the
advent of the new year have the officers
been so bafied by what they believe to
be a well organized gang of highway
men.
The crimes last night brought the total
Of filling stations up to seven that have
been visited by the bandits in the last
few nights.
The first hold-up call last night was
received at 6 80 O'Clock at police head
quarters Two men entered filling sta
tion at Kentucky avenue and Stock street
and covered Loran Abram, IL, the night
man at the station, with a revolver. one
Of the bandits removed $26.24 from the
cash drawer while Abram was forced to
stand with his face to the wall. The men
escaped in a big high-powered auto
mobile, the driver of which remained at
the wheel while his pals" entered the
station. Max Nowlin, 1865 Sunset ave-
nue.. is the owner of the filling station.
SAME MEN ATTEMPT
SECOND HOLD-UP.
The same gang attempted to loot a
filing station at Kentucky avenue and
Harding street at 8 40 o'clock.
Roger Lake, 1914 South Harding street,
night man at the filing station, told the
police that he saw three men acting in a
suspicious manner. Two crossed the
street and asked him for tobacco, and
larer returned and repeated the request.
The two then returned to their pal,
who was waiting for them on the oppo-
site side of the street. The robbers be-
came frightened when Frank Moser,
owner of the station, who was at the
place with Lake. went outside and fred
a 45-caliber revolver in the air four times
to attract attention.
Two Of the men went south on Hard
ing street and the other one walked two
blocks from the filling station, where he
got into an automobile and drove toward
the city.
Harry Lord. 1916 South Harding street.
followed the man until he entered the
automobile. He gave the police a de-
scription Of the men which is similar to
the description of the bandits that held
up the NOwlin filing station earlier in
the night.
On Wednesday night a burglar broke
into the Nowlin station and stole a re-
vOlvtr. The police believe the gun was
taken by a member of the gang to be
sure that it would not be used against
them when they staged the stick up"
BANDITS HAVE
MANY VICTIMS.
Other places visited by the bandit gang
during the last few weeks are: The
Emrichsville station on Speedway ave
nue.; the Standard Oil station at Thirtieth
and Meridian streets, where they obtained
S110; the station at 1901 East Washing
ton street, where the robbers were fright
ened away and escaped after a thrilling
automobile race on Washington street
with a police car Saturday night; the
successful robbery at the Silver Flash
station at Maple Road boulevard and
Ruckle street, next door to a police sub
station. There the bandits escaped in a
big maroon cOlored automobile stolen in
this city and later recovered by the pO
lice and the unsuccessful holdup planned
Thursday night when the automob:l
bandits left before robbing the filling
station at Washington and Gsisendorff
streets.