Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-09
NEGRO is HELD
AS ASSAILANT
OF SIX WOMEN
Fireman at Plaza Apartment
Suspected by PO-
lice.
POWDER GIVES CLEW

Police today are weaving a wet. of cir
cumstantial evidence about Miles Manley,
%, negro, to support their theory that
he is the man who attacked six white
women in the Plaza apartment, Pennsyl-
vania and Pratt streets, in the last two
months. The latest outrage occurred
about 1 a. N. today, when Mrs. j ohm
Griffith SO, apartment TO- was dragged
from her ped by the hair and thrown
against doorway.
Manley is the fireman at the Plaza.
In each of the six intrusions the invader
has picked a night when the husband was
absent. Mr.. Griffith left last night Oh
business trip and Mrs. Griffith was
alone with a sister, who is critically i'll.
Other circumstances which led the po-
lice to arrest Manley and hold him IN
der $4,000 bail on a vagrancy charge
were the facts that they found him In the
bed OF his father, Charles Manley, janitOr
of the Plaza apartments with his trousers
on. The rest of his clothing was in the
furnace room. His coat had white pow
der marks upon the sleeves. Mrs. Crit
fth's throat and arms We're covered With
sooty finger prints.
FOUND MAN IN
ROOM AT A. NJ.
Mrs. Griffith awakened about 1
o'clock and saw man in the living
room. She screamed. without uttering
a word the intruder rushed to her bed
side and locked his fingers about her
neck. She struggled furiously and the
prowler grabbing her by the hair, pulled
her across the bed, breaking the foot
piece He dragged her to tn floor and
threw her against the doorway, then
ran. He made his escape through
kitchen window to a back porch from
which a stairway led to the ground. It
was discovered later that entrance had
been gained by unlocking the front
door Mrs. Griffith could not identify
her assailant as Marley, but said she
was sure he was brown negro.
In only one of the six inyaSions at the
Plaza has criminal assault been at
tempted, the police said. This was sew
eral weeks ago. The last entrance prior
to this morning was Jan. /.
A hold-up, one pursesnatching, two
burglaries and an attempted burglary
engaged the attention of the police also
during the night.
A roughly dressed large. white man,
felled James f. White, 2116 Winter ave
nue., conductor on a BrightwOOd street
car, just after it had left the end of the
line at Thirtieth street and Brightwood
avenue about Il o'clock last night and
robbed him of SIG of his own money and
ST belonging to the street railway com
Motorman Charles Riegers, 1921 Green
Briar Lane, did not discover that his
conductor had been attacked until he had
driven the car several blocks past
Twenty Eight street where the robber
hoped off
GROCER'S $50
CHANGE TAKEN.
A sack containing $50 in change was
stolen from the grocery Of Frank Lind
~
glar who entered with a key to the front
door The proprietor believes the thief
stole the extra key. which was kept
hanging in a secret place some time yes
terday. The money sack was hidden be
meath a bag Of potatoes.
The engineer found the office Of the
Standard Dry Kiln Company, mccarthy
and Harding streets, ransacked. The
burglar had jimmied a side window and
broken a glass in an inside door. Papers
were scattered about the room, but the
police have not learned If anything Of
value is missing.
A newsbOy. who disappeared before his
name was learned, frightened away
man who was trying to get into the front
door Of Mrs. Eliza beth Martin, 1912 Spann
avenue Mr. Martin is railroad man and
had left for his work a short time be
fore the burglar was seen.
A purse containing $3.50 and some pa
pers was snatched from -Irs. Nettie
Morgan, 1914 Congress avenue, about s 10
o'clock by a man who ran up behind her
in front Of 545 Massachusetts avenue. He
escaped through an alley near the Cavett
Hotel.
Louis Lancaster. r. r. I, Needham,
teIephoned the police that a thief who
stole his horse and wagon was headed
toward Indianapolis.
SURPRISED NEGRO
HELPING SELF TO COAL.
Patrolman Manuel and Curran arrested
Harris Bridges, negro, 1925 East Nine
teenth street, last night on a charge OF
petit larceny. They said they surprised
him loading coal from a car on the MOnon
tracks in the north part Of the city into
motor truck. Both negro and truck
were brought to police headquarters.
Bridges claimed he owns the truck which
bore license No. 22714.
The police are hunting for West May
berry, negro, Of unknown address. They
say Henry Ebert Muncie negro, charges
Mayberry with having slashed him on the
side of the throat with a knife, following
a quarrel over Margaret Blackwell, ne
gress, at her home, 223 Wyoming street.
Ebert is at the city hospital, but is not
seriously injured.