Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-14
IDENTIFY ONE
MAN IN STOLEN
CAR AS BANDIT
Several Say Smith Helped Rob
Grocery and Gasoline
Stations.
NOT SURE OF OTHER TWO

Arthur Smith, 10, 1929 Commerce
avenue, who gave the name Of Arthur
White. 1912 Roosevelt avenue when
he was arrested in a stolen automo-
bile with another man and three
young women, Tuesday night on the
Allisonyille road, today was positive
ly identified by four men as the lead
er of the automobile bandits who
have been robbing gasoline filling
stations.
Kenneth Ray, 622 North East street,
who was in the automobile with Smith
and Noble Claycomb, 1901 Ludlow street,
who is alleged to have been the driver
of the stolen automobile during the 10y
ride" and who escaped after the car
was sent into the ditch, as the result Of
a detectives bullet exploding a tire, have
not been identified as the other members
Of the bandit gang. A number of per
sons who saw the bandits are to view
the three suspects, however.
Virgil c. Goodwin, 1926 Rembrandt
street, was the first man to see the sus-
poets.
a revolver Saturday afternoon at the
Standard Grocery Company store" Good
win exclaimed, pointing to Smith. Il
was standing in the doorway as they
entered and that man covered me with
a revolver and kept me covered until the
other two were ready to go. Then he
said to one of the others, All right, Ray
and backed to the automobile in front OF
the store"
GROCERY MANAGER
ALSO IDENTIFIES HIM.
Otto Hamilton, 1894 West Thirtieth
street, manager of the branch Of the
Standard grocery at Montcalm and E1gh-
teenth streets, positively identified Smith
as the man who held the gun while his
companion removed $125 from the cash
register
Everett Howes, 1401 North King ave
nue., who IS in charge of the Emerichs-
vile filling station, In Speedway avenue,
identified Smith as the man who pur-
chased gasoline about half-hour be-
fore the grocery robbery. Howes, at the
time, gave Il good description of the men
and also gave the police the correct IL
cense number
Leon Monroe, % North Gray street.
Identified Smith as the leader of the
b1-b VI AAANt baAt-AlS iu Il blS touring
car who held up and robbed the gasoline
filling station Ruckle street and Maple
Road boulevard the night Of April O.
The bandits obtained $40 in that robbery
Monroe, night man at the filing station,
was positive in selecting Smith, but said
he could not be sure of Identifying the
other two men.
Men who were present when the bandit
gang visited other filing stations Will
appear at police headquarters to assist
In the Identification. This includes men
who were held up at Kentucky avenue
and Stock street; the filing stations at
Meridian and Thirtieth streets; 1901 East
Washington street and those who escaped
robbery at Reisener and Washington
streets and at Harding street aud Ken
lucky avenue; the robbery at the Rural
and New York streets filing station and
at the Emerchsville filing station,
GIRLS SAY THE BOYS
STOLE Ie AUTOMOBILES.
The girls, the lure Of whom caused the
youths 70 take the final joy ride in a
stolen car, confessed that the boys had
been implicated In the thefts of twelve
automobiles. Following their statements
the three young men were charged with
vehicle taking and their cases were con-
tinued until April 20.
The women gave their names as
Ester Burk. 10, 1920 East Ohio
names as Ester Burk, 10, 1920 East Ohio
street; Lucille Anderson, q 1710 Cor
nell avenue and Viola johnson. %, 435
Goodlet street. The women also gave
their names to the police as Ella HoH-
ner, Lucille Harding and Mary Marshall,
and gave different addresses than the
ones that appear on the slate.
Detectives Rugenstein and Uynes to-
day stated they had recovered automo-
biles stolen by the three men and owned
by b. z. Bulmier, 614 Congress avenue;
the Wilbur Johnson Company; Herman
Kuemich, 1887 East Vermont street; Lon
Tracey, 2314 North Alabama street; Fred
L. Brown, 3042 Kenwood avenue; Law
renee Hartman, 2402 Park avenue; Rufus
Swain. Southport Ind; Norman c.
Ascher, 001 Ashland avenue; Mary Davis
019 North Pennsylvania street; William
NJ. Leonard, 4516 East Washington street,
and Fred o. Lane. 551 South Central
court.