Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-26
HELD
BY POLICE IN
BANK ROBBERY

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peared in the rogues' gallery before he
was appointed q member of the police
force, is one Of the men under arrest and
according to detectives is the brains"
who planned the Beech Grove Bank rob-
berry.
Thomas Mckinney, IS, was a member
Of the Indianapolis police. department
until D. N. yesterday when ne reached
headquarters on the motorcycle he used
to pursue speeders, and was taken to the
office of Chief Of Police Jerry Kinney,
and suspended. Later he was arrested
and charged with conspiracy in con
nection with the Beech Grove Bank hold
up.
Mrs. Erma Stout, rs, 40 Fleming street,
wife Of Glenn Stout, alleged bandit held
in jail, was found at McKinney's home
and also arrested after the police searched
the house
The charges against those under arrest
IN connection with the bank robbery and
certain alleged acts following the rob
berry are: Mcdonald, conspiring to COM
NIT felony Motorcycle Policeman Nc
Kinney, accessory after the fact and CON
spring to commit a felony; Mrs. Stout,
accessory after the fact to conspiracy to
commit a felony.
Fred Mckinney, brother of Thomas Me
Kinney, was arrested Oct Is on charges
Of carrying concealed weapons and aiding
prisoners to escape. He was held after
he had tied an automatic pistol and some
hack saws TO a rope lowered from a
window Of the Jail for the purpose. the
police charge. Of aiding the bandit to
escape.
Stout, Clint Shaw, alias Simms, and
George Miller, three OF the four men al
/, ged to have held up the bank, were ar
rested Sept. 2S, on charges of robbery,
ana grand larceny. They each are held
under S25, 900 bonds, and were indicted
by the grand jury. They entered pleas
of not guilty in Criminal Court and de-
manded q change OF venue. Charles s.
WiItsie is the special Judge in the cases
of the three men, and Miller will be tried
Monday. The other two viii be tried i'm
mediately afterward.
Following the recently established Gus
tom of the detective department Inspec-
tor Herbert Fletcher said in regard to
the arrests of Mcdonald and Mckinney
| today, there is nothing to give out at
this time"
Then he explained that the only thing
that had not been made public in con
nectic.n with the case was "our source Of
information"
Special Investigator Claude worley of
the Criminal Court yesterday said !:
When the story comes out it sure will
De 4 good one, but I am not at liberty
to talk at this time"
DETECTIVE EFFECTED
THE ARRESTS.
A member OF a private agency when
told OF the arrest of Mcdonald and Ne
Kinney, yesterday, said, II am only sur
prlsed that those two men were not ar
rested sooner Further than that, he re
fused to comment.
IL Is well known that since the arrest
or Simms, Miller and Stout, Mckinney
mas taken a strange and unusual interest
In their cases. Before that time he made
constant inquiries from detectives In re-
gard to the Beech Grove bank robbery in
yestlgatiOn. After Alillers arrest, Nc
Kinney told other policemen. MILLER can
not be guilty, for at the time the bank
ROBBERY occurred he was working on my
automobile"
Immediately following the arrest OF the
three suspects, Mckinney made an effort
TO see the men and talk with them, but
was prevented By q turnkey. 1t is said
that since the men were arrested McKin-
ney visited them IN jail.
Tie police are holding McKinney's au-
tOmObile for Investigation" Inspector
Fletcher admitted Mckinney was sus-
pected in connection with the disappear
ance Of q number Of automobiles. "es-
pecially one" That zone" he said was
the Oakland car found dismantled In
Stout's garage. The car had been stolen
IN this city from man who recently had
moved here from Ohio Ohio licenses
were used on the big Hudson automobile
stolen the day before the bank robbery
and In which the bandits escaped
The police admit Mckinney and Mrs
Stout had no advance knowledge Of the
bank robbery. However, from opera
tiYes Of private detective agency, It was
learned Mcdonald was alleged to be the
brains" that planned the hold-up and
that he had been active" following the
arrests OF the three alleged robbers
Mcdonald, detectives say, was in the
Plainfieid Reform School at one time. and
later did a stretch at prison in the
West" Mcdonald was arrested April
8, 1912, on the charge Of assault and
battery with intent to kill, and his pic
ture was placed in the rogues' gallery
before he was made policeman. Melon
aid, drummer at tho Park Theater, was
appointed a patrolman June %, 1917,
and resigned July Il, 1919, after charges
u COANuCl uuDeCOmln2 an onlcer were
filed against him. These charges were
filed, following an affair" in which
whisky is said to have played a prom
inent part.
Mckinney, an ex-soldier, was appointed
member Of the police department last
March. He had been on the department
less than two weeks when he was made
a motorcycle policeman.
That the gang committed oth1r hold
ups has long been an open secret in and
around police headquarters That there
are other arrests to be made In con
nection with the case is also known
The inspector of detectives declared Nc
Donald and Mckinney made mo confess
sion but admitted a few things"
1t is rumored some articles of 1ewelry
recovered by the detective department
may prove important clews connecting
some of the men now under arrest with
other hOld-ups.
All the evidence against Mrs. Stout
as far as can be learned is that she knew
Of her husbands alleged part in the
hold ups Immediately following the Beech
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