The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-02-01
mai. MAN
ON WAY To
P.O. VICTIM
Bandits Believed to Have
Slipped a Day in Their
Calculations
lBY Staff CORRESPONDENT. -,

bandits. heavily armed g,,a.ea,
wrong this morning when they swoon-
ca down upon the town or Whiting ana
guard
Firing their revolvets il the air Il
nait pursuit, the bandits raced out ~
the city with seven sacks Of mai
which IL is evident they believed con
tained the $4,000 payroll OF me
Standard oil Company.
BIRDS TOO EARLY TO GET WORM.
me daring daylight hold-up. wit
messed by a score Of people. YVES ar
'east twenty-tour hours too soon
Inc loot consisting OF six SACKS
n parcel post and second class maj
ser. and one BAG Of first cIaxs mai.
VIII net a. The most two or thres
hundred dollars in money orders
cnecAs and cash. according 10 a state
ment by postal authorities this noon.
Earlier in the week the bandits
would have endangered q thirty th9us-
and dollar deposit covering tho Office
payroll Of the STANDARD OIL plant. To-
morrow or the next day they would
nave had chance 20 got the big plan,
payroll
To obtain either OF these shIprnen
os currency they would have had 10
kill or over-po~er two special poiica
equipped With rifles who meet the mail
trains at Whiting when their pay
roll deposits are in transit
SCHWARTZ TNABFHED
The hold-up took place at the inter
section Of New York aud Ohio ave-
nues. a block from tho Pennsylvania
depot. The tram from CHICAGO b.,
Pittsburgh. due al Whiting at 72a
o clock had just pulled cut. Schvartz :
was pushing he mail cart along the
sidewalk toward the postodice He
was unarmed and alone.
y Packard touring car with eid>
curtains and without license plate
was moving slowly along the street
behind Schwartz. The car stonpe !
and three men jumped to the pave
| ment Two or the bandits wore sol
dier oyercoaets and one wore a rain
coat.
One bandit rushed upon the mail
messenger, holding a revolver at his
head and demanding hands up Tho
other two grabbed the all sacks ana
dragged them 20 the curb where e
third fellow helped lood them in the
tonneau OF tho car The engine OF the
Pack was running and the driver ws-
81 the wheel
Hoyt Wright. assistant chif clerk
Of the Standard OIL Company; Clifford
Green. a clerx; Miss Cora Blackhuyst
and Miss Nora Sullivan, school teach
ers Charles 1'crel and Mrs. Hannah
SaIkenthal we're witnesses
They're holding IN the mail"
Green shouted to Hoyt and the two
men started across tho street towsre
he bandit car.
FmBs As WARNING.
Get back you $500. .---.. .-.....''
yelled a bandit, firing into the air.
L. 9. Gruob. principal of tho high
school. in front Of whose home the
hold-up took place, came to the door.
attracted by the cernnotion.
A bandit gun was nrandi bed TO-
ward him.
The Packard began 10 move. tn
robbers jumping 70 the running boar5
and crowding in on top of the mai
bags. The auto started on New York
avenue for One Hundred and Nine
teenth street and stopped. II would
seem that the bandits decided not 80
venture on tho main street too near
the police station The big car turn
ed around and started I'D Ohio TO One
Gu az" 90
~ a'Sl ~ 80 - - - - 80.
20 pou'IHs ~ =. -. .h..o-1 49, ~ -.
- - - - -, ,-a,.;,,c- e,.+ IL
~ 80 - r,i1o rn,,,.a s1eas
po,ira ard s-er,er vritb revoIvers
,d ~,ess 1ye-a 500, ~ r,,rsnit or The
a,,to,,ohlo nra truck and IN com
n,andeered automobiles. South Chi
caro police we're notified and eve
bridge raised 20 halt the bandit auto
The man robbers went west on IN
dlanapolis like streak OF blue lightr-
ing. The fire truck gave up the
chase at the state line Tho Packard
was not seen again
CONSERVATION FeasHop ~ " '''
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ron mao oeeH -,
Coi'lns sot ~ comm - l9'i ~ -.
paYn'sster e t., .--.1, ao~o.,.
p'-i,S a"S .,,;--,..7 v-hitinr banlss
10, 80 ,r--,od ,,vastirations and learn
"a 49, '1sd no money in transit.