The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-09-14
EXPECT TO
CLEAN Up
" CRIMES

Does Police Chauffeur Oscar Salz-
man of Gary pack a horseshoe in. his
poeket7
That at least IS what his fellow Of
hcers on the department charge and
those who know OF the narrow escapes
he has had while = member OF the
mortal In the world.
IL was driver Saizman, who having
enptied the chamber of sis gun Jump
ed out OF the police car and showed
the muzzle of mis- gun into the stom-
ach OF Liddei Smith. negro bandit and
placed him under arrest after two
dozen shots had been exchanged be-
tween the police and the three negro
highwaymen at 25th avenue and Clark
road Monday afternoon.
up with your hands" said SalE-
man. "or I'll I'LL you mil of holes"
The bandit shivered at the command
and complied. Removing a loaded
revolver from the negro's hip pocket.
Saismaa rave the negro the laugh
when he showed him the empty cham
bsr.
This was Salzman's third lucky
escape from death 1t was onIy re-
Gently that a bullet from Salzman's
trusty revolver feiied q negro prowier
in a night gun battle. Thinking he
had mortally wounded his prisoner
Salrman walked up to him as the
negro did not stir and was
that he was even armed.
As eaisnnsn leaned over the prisoner
the negro whipped Put a revolver ant
aevellsd II at the officers head. Thert
was . click Ind instantaneous dash.
This bullet had iammed In the barrel
OF ths qua. Shortly after his debut
on b forea he had another similar
close call.
With the sisying Of Clarence Smith.
colored. notorious sunman and high
way and the capture of his pal LddeIl
Smith by the Gary police department
In n daylight gun battle at 25th ave-
nue. and Clark road in Gary Monday
afternoon. in which the Hudson police
car wac riddled with bullets and the
OFFICERS had . narrow escape with
their lives. Chief of Poiice Forbis of
Gary expects to clear up q string OF
highway rohberies, rape cases and a
murder.
Ths death OF one Of the highwaymen
and this capture of another follows on
the heels of a gan of negro bandits
terrorizing the residents OF the west
side and on The outskirts Of the city
for the past six months or more by
b~urgiaftiEng homes. insulting and at
lacking white women, holding up
automobile drivers and OF
their machines and In all probability
responsible for one "stickup" murder.
TIE third gunman mad his escape In
10 the dense thieket.
Today Chief of Police Fernis and
his star are getting all the informa-
ton c~bteinable ON the captured gun
man Lddell Smith and II is the hops
and certainty OF the police that they
will be able to link him up with a,
least one murder. a rape case and
other crimes that will sem him to the
electric chair. In custody OF Cap.ain
Vodicka and Plainclothesman CainA,
Smith was taken to Crown Point to-
day where preliminary charges will be
filed against him.
Dozens OF witnesses in highway rob
berries. a rape case on a II year old
girl and the victims Of other crimes
have identified both the dead Smith
and the prisoner Smith. resulting In
the Gary police being able to clear up
numerous cases.
An effort will also be made today
70 identify either the dead audit OF
the prisoner as one OF the two bandits
who shot and killed Myer Ruskin,
well known Indiana Harbor young
druggist in q highway ioidup al West
Gary last July. Ruskin was killed
after he had stepped out of his ma
chine and levelling a revolver at the
smallest OF the negro bandits killed
him. Ruskin was accompanied by his
fance a Chicago girl who will be
called upon to make the Identification.
The dead bandi was identified yes
&erday as Clarence Smith. former Chi
cage negro. He was formerly en-
pioyed in a Gary south side cabaret as
a floor walker or in other words It
was his duty to Gust any one who be-
cam too boistrous from the place.
The prisoner is said to have made his
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