Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-11
FOUR TAKEN IN
ACT OF TRYING
TO ROB STORES
Two Sets of Reputed Burglars
Said to Have Confessed
Purpose to Steal.

under $1,000 bonds apiece The first
/ pair of reputed burglars was found hid
J ing under counters in the dry goods and
clothing store Of Thomas Cohen, 926 Mas
sachusetts avenue, at 30 o'clock Sun
( day morning and they gave their names
as Charles Thompson, so. I'll Virginia
avenue and Charles Truck 81, I'll Viz
gina avenue
The second pair Of alleged burglars was
/ caught at Ills o'clock Sunday night on
/ the roof Of L. w. Durbin's drug store.
/ 1868 Reisner street, where they we're at
( tempting to cut a hole through the roof
/ They gave their names as Harry Dodds,
! IS l0l5la North Illinois street, who has
/ police record. and alfred Vaughn. 1904
/ East Twenty Second street, owner of a
( drug store at the Twenty Second street
address.
HEARS NOISE
/ ON THE ROOF.
! r. c. Stout, 1922 Howard street, heard
some person on the roof Of Durbins drug
store and notified Otis Morris, 1345 How
ard street. who telephoned the police
Sergeant Johnson and Detective Fossati
arrived at the store in time to catch the
/ two men al work. The light from the
flashlights of the officers revealed the
two men crouchiug under a gable The
police kept them covered with their re-
/ volvers until ladder was brought and
I then the police climbed to the roof and
arrested Vaughan and Dodds The pair
were charged with conspirlng to commit
a felony.
Vaughan confessed that be met Dodds
{ at University park and suggested that
/ they sob the Durbiu drug store where he
/ formerly worked. the police report They
/ planned to steal narcotics. he said The
/ police found a two-foot Jimmy in Dodds
I pocket and a new rope about twenty two
] feet long on the roof. A keyhole saw
also was found on the roof. These
/ vaughan admitted were his and he said
that he purchased them some time ago
.Dodds admitted that he had been out OF
! the Indiana state farm less than three
weeks after serving sixty day sentence
COaEN's STORE
ARRESTS.
/ The capture Of the two reputed bur
glars Sunday morning was due 20 w. $
Slack, 29S Massachusetts avenue hearing
some person IN the Probst Kasscbaum
feed store, He notified the police L.fC
Hendricks, apartment 3, 031 Massachu-
sets avenue, employed az the feed store
unlocked the door and the police en-
tered. No burglars were in the feed
store, but the police found bales Of hay
stacked against the wall, and AT the top
| II the stack eleven feet from the floor
/ a hole was cut through the wall GA
/ the other side Of the wall was Thomas
/ Cohen's dry goods and clothing store.
/ Emergency Driver Fisher went 20 Co
3 hens home. 4f8 East Vermont street, and
/ brought Cohen TO the store. Then the
officers entered They found Thompson
hiding under the counter in the rear Of
the store and Truck hiding under the
counter I'm the front OF the store under
wrapping paper.
/ The men admitted. the police say, that
they planned the burglary Saturday anil
that Thompson went o. the feed store
and asked for work and looked over the
place while Truck purchased q handkcr-
chief. They planned 10 steal clothing nd
! sell H. Two chsels and a hashlghl
were found near where the two men cut
through the wall from the feed store to
the dry goods and clothing store.
Burglars 'jimmied" the rear door OF
I The home OF Ia Sruckry 1913 ST. Paul
street ransacked the house and broke
open a trunk. Stu,key told the police
that $3.50 was missing from the TRUNK.
LODGE RING VALUED
AT $3.50 MISSING.
! DIT J. u. McLeay, 1927 North New Jer-
sey street, told the police that bur
glar had removed screen from the win
4 dow Of his home during the night and
that a diamond lodge ring worth $3.50
was missing The thief also took SD
Mrs. II L. Terrell, 81 Congress avenue.
( telephoned the police at y 30 a. m. that
/ there was burglar at her home. The po-
lice reported they were unable to find
where the house had been entered.
Carl Harpman, 2023 South Meridian
/ street. bad bad luck while he was swim
ming at Broad Ripple. Some person
broke into the locker and stole his
trousers In which be had 81. lie was
marooned IN his swimming suit until his
father brought him another pair Of
trousers.
Two kid" burglars, one g and the
other 10. were caught by Charles W.
/ Fryberger, proprietor Of a hardware
store at 23l4 East Washington street.
! after the boys had broken into the store.
/ Motor Policemen Reilly and Mullln took
the boys 20 the detention home.T hey are
/ alleged 10 have broken into the garage in
/ the rear Of the hardware store. turned on
/ the water, and after flooding the garage
poured several buckets OF paint on the
( floor FryberPer told the police that the
( boys took soldering irons worth $50
/ and rivets valued al 80 cents.
Dexter E. Orvis, 21S West Twenty
/ First street, discovered a burglar in his
garage. The man had removed a wheel
and tire from OrviS' automobile and at
/ tempted to run with It. Orvis pursued
so closely that the chief was forced to
drop the loot in order to escape.
HALF MILLION FOR ROADS.
County Auditor Leo X. Fesler conferred