Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-13
HOLD-UP MEN
FIRE AS VICTIM
SHOWS FIGHT
Soft Drink Merchant Offers
Observation-Disclosures
Severely.
CHANCE TO RECOVER

Nicholas Charles, proprietor Of soft
drink saloon at 702 Arnold avenue, was
shot and critically wounded by hold-up
men who entered his place at u 80 a. IN,
today.
Charles and several customers were
lined up behind the counter and ordered
to hold up their hands by the despera-
does. Charles lodged behind the lunch
counter and was fired at through the
counter by each of the hold-up men. One
bullet struck him above the left hip,
passed through his body, three walls.
and lodged in the door Of a wood shed
ten feet away. The bullet was steel
nosed and indicated that it was from a .45
caliber automatic. The burglars fed aft
er the shooting without obtaining any
valuables.
AS the hold-up men entered Charles
place, Russell Morrison and J. B. Holt Of
Pittsboro, were leaving. They were or
defed back. Morrison did not move fast
enough and was strucl. a blow in the
face by one Of the marauders, which
doored him.
MEN MAKE
ESCAPE.
Two patrolmen heard the shots and
went to the scene, but could not locate
the hold-up men. The emergency squad
was called and spread the police net
over the district, but no trace Of the
men was found.
Charles is in the city hospital where
he ia expected to recover.
The motor from his phonograph was
stolen from the home Of II. E. Smith,
S242 Pruitt street, by an eccentric bur-
glar who entered through a side window,
The motor was valued at $50.
STORE VISITED
THIRD TIME.
A raincoat valued at 500 was taken
from the Hoyle & Rarlck Clothing
Store at 303 West washington street by
thieves last night. 1t was the third rob-
berry at the store within a few weeks.
Yeggmen broke the knob off the safe
door at the junk shop Of Jacob Solot
ken, 40 West North street Saturday
night. The inner door was broken open
and the yeggs failed to get any valuables.
Miss Alice Hill, pos North Pennsyl-
vania street, reported to the police that
she was accosted and attacked by a man
as she was passing an alley between
North Pennsylvania street and Talbot
avenue on Twenty First street. Her
screams and struggles drove the man
away.
| Earl Munson, 1888 Finley avenue, dis
covered that thieves had entered his
home and taken a ring valued at $50.
BURGLAR TRIES TO
CHOKE WOMAN.
Mrs. Lucy Lunsford, 1913 South State
avenue, was awakened by a burgldr plac-
ing his hand over ner mouth and at
tempting to choke her when she resisted
him. Her 2-year-old child, sleeping near,
was awakened and its screams drove the
burglar away.
Burglars obtained $50 from the home
of A. 7. Pratt. 1853 North Alabama
street.
A diamond ring valued at $40 was re-
ported stolen by William C. Harder, SS1
Fletcher avenue.
Richard jenkins, se4 Torbet avenue,
reported the theft of a sealskin coat val
ued at $175.
Some one representing himself as
Charles J. Claxton obtained $50 Of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, ac-
cording to a report by Claxton to the
police
A burglar entered the Goldsmith drug
store, Indiana avenue and West street, by
crawling through the coal hole About
S15 worth o. morphine was reported
stolen.
Police have Leen asked to look for
two men who stole an automobile tire
valued at $500 from the Swain s. Bowman
garage at PittsbOro.
ROBBER GETS 85 CENTS
AND CIGARETTES.
negro hiding behind a telephone pole
at Brookside avenue and Newman street
covered Theodore Bowers, 1916 Ingram
street, with a revolver late last night.
u hOTI ~ &c ha
bandit removed 35 cents and q package
Of cigarettes from his pocket. The robber
told him to walk north and don't yell
or I'll shoot you" Bowers obeyed and
walked to 1927 Massachusetts, avenue,
where he telephoned the police.
a negro armed with a large knife at
tempted to break into store owned by
George Warford, 1919 Massachusetts ave
nue., at 1 q. m. Warford was in the store
and the negro ran when he saw Warford
use the telephone.
Charles McKinzie's drug store, 1865 Co
lumbia avenue, was entered by n burglar
who broke the glass in the front door
Of the store and took So from the cash
register.
NIGHT RIDERS
PURSUE AUTO THIEF.
Sergt Harry Nageleisen and his squad
of night riders had a thrilling pursuit
of thief in a stolen Packard automo-
bile la.e in the night. Fred Scholl, 1905
North Meridian street, earlier reported
his Packard stolen from North Capitol
avenue. The night riders saw the license
number and Spotted" the car at Sen
ate avenue and Ohio street. A chase en-
sued that ended at Fifteenth and West
streets. There the thief jumped from
the car and ran west on Fifteenth street,
disappearing in an alley.
Later in the night tho same squad of
night riders found an automobile owned
by Emery Alley, 1882 Sugar Grove avenue.
which was reported stolen from Maryland
street and Kentucky avenue. The ma
chine was deserted al Vermont and Della
ware streets. This squad has recovered
ten stolen automobiles since March /.
II. Z. Lang, 1890 East Tenth street, re
p witt