Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-09
NEGRO BURGLAR
CHOKES WOMAN,
ROBS 5 HOMES
Police Notified of Activities
on Northwest Side, but
Make No Arrest.
BARE FOOTPRINTS FOUND

In a series of daring burglariss early
today a thief who was either a negro or
wore a dark mask, entered and robbed
i've homes and attempted to rob three
others in the northwest part of the city.
At one place the thug attacked woman.
brutally choking her. Although the
police received complaints soon after the
burglar started his operations at II 80
o'clock this morning the thief continued
to enter residence in the northwest dis
trict and escaped arrest The burglar
was fsrefOOted.
He was first heard of whsn he was
seen prowIinx around 80 West Twenty
Fourth street at u 40 a. m, but he dis
appeared before the police arrived.
JUMPS ON WOMAN
AND CHOKES HER.
1t was at the home of John Pickens,
326 West Twentv-Fifth street, that the
burglar made his most successful rob
berry and where he attacked a woman.
After he had visited rooms on the sec
ond floor Of the house he was about to
leave when Clara Pickens, As. who was
on a davenport in a downstairs room,
awakened The man jumped on her with
both knees, and chOked her when she
screamed Then he escaped through an
open window. She described her assail-
ant as a small negro. The police found
prints Of the burglars bare feet near
the window.
Pickens found his trousers downstairs,
but the burglar had taken So from the
} pockets Frank Thurall, a roomer at
the Pickens home, also found his trous-
ers downstairs and $50 had been taken
from the pockets.
Mrs. 7 S. True. s15 West Thirty-Sec
e - hon
open and she called, thinking it was
some Of her family returning from a
party, but the prOwler ran from the
house Mrs. True did not see the man
who entered her residence and the police
we're unable to obtain his description
A key was used TO open the door.
A similar experience occurred at 2S0S
Paris avenue, and it is believed the same
burglar planned to rob that house but
found the people awake.
GETS S22 AND
WATCH VALUED AT S35.
Charles W. Phares, 1925 West Thirtieth
street, reported that the burglar entered
his home by using a key to unlock the
front door. Phares said the thief OBJ
tanned so and also took his watch worth
$S5. Phares was awakened when the bur
glar flashed an electric fash light in his
face. The burglar reached for Phares'
trousers and ran down stairs pursued by
Phares. The man dropped the trousers
as he ran but obtained the money and
watch. Phares said the man might have
been white, but that he was not sure.
He was slender and wore something dark
over his face. The burglar wore an over
coat.
At the home of ". II. Prather, 1912
West Twenty Eighth street the burglar
entered by way Of the front door. The
thief obtained SIG, and a watch worth
$35. The robbery was discovered at $50
a. m.
The burglar entered the residence of
Henry Elan, 1887 West Twenty Seventh
street. Mr.. Elam's trousers were carried
from upstairs to a hallway on the first
floor. The police were told 1886 were
| missing from the pockets. Two weeks
'ago the residence was entered an a
watch taken.
SolOman DeChake, 532 West Twenty
Fifth street, found his trousers missing
this morning. Later he discovered they
had been carried TO a downstairs room
and $40 taken from the pocket. The
burglar had entered through a window.
Thieves did not cOnfine their efforts to
Just the northwest section of the city,
but che police received complaints today
from persons living in other parts OF the
city.
SEVERAL SUITS
OF CLOTHES STOLEN.
Sam Lewis tailor shop at 80 West Pratt
street was troken into by a thief and
two serge suits, gray suit and a blue
striped suit and one overcoat were taken
The total value of the missing clothes Is
1895.
Burglars broke the glass from the front
door of William R. Higbee's shoe shop
at 2O4 South Audubon road early today.
Leather. shoes. rubber heels and shoe
polish worth S1T5 were taken.
Two negroes held up and robbed
Charles Brockway, 1924 Cornell avenue
last midnight at keystone avenue and
East Washington street. The robbers
covered Brockway with a revolver and
took IS from him.
August Buschman reported S125 stolen
from the cash register of the Buschman
& Sons grocery and hardware store, Col
lege avenue and Eleventh street. yester-
day.
A sneak thief took a purse from Mrs.
Y. C. Roberts, 523 Lemcke building, yes
terday. The purse contained 81.
Harry Campbell csc Bright street, re-
ported his overcoaL stolen from Butler
College. The coat was worth $45
o. Griffith, a salesman fol the NJ. O'Con-
nor & Co, wholesale grocers, reported
that his sample case was stolen from his
, automobile, which WAC parkeu a. Mary
, land and Meridian streete yesterday aft
ernOOn. The case was worth So.
A thief stripped the clothes line in the
rear Of the home Of +. c. Hoyl, 126 West
Eighteenth street, last night. Sheets, pill
lowcases and table cloths. and eleven
shirts were taken.