South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-07-29
Police Quickly
SolUe Daylight
Holdup Mystery
Perpetrators of Holdup on
North Shore Drive Quickly
Discovered No Arrests.

Holdup on North Shore drive.
one block west Of Michigan. Send
police quickly. was the urgent
message received a. police head
quarters AZ 1850 o'clock Friday aft
ernoon.
About a minute and half later
Motorcycle Officer Diver was az the
scene. and was met by Ward i.
Mack who told him that he had
sent IN the call 20 the police.
1T may be wrong steer" Mr.
Mack said 90 the officer. But %
looked 20 awfuny bad 10 me that I
took no chances and called the po-
lice / was sprinkling my lawn here
when j saw a big red car with yell
low wheels draw alongside Charley
Winkler's car. and one Of the two
young men in the yellow wheeled
car got out and onto the running
saw Charley hold up his hands.
and Pretty soon the man on the run
ming board jumped off Charleys car
again. and back into his own ma
chine which turned around and
went like lightning out the Niles
road
Police on Job
Before Mr. Mack had finished
telling Ohicer Diver OF the holdup.
Motorcycle officer Karl Smith. sum-
moued from his dinner. also arriv-
ed on the scene. and he Immediately
sreeded away 81 IS miles an hour
toward Niles 10 ovcrtake the hold
up men in the new car with yellow
wheels.
Omcer Diver drove around the
block in an effort 10 ind Winkler.
but failed 10 see him. Arriving
back in front of Mr. Mack house
he was Joined BIZ Chief OF Police.
Laurence J. Lane, Captain OF De-
tectives Horace Hamilton and De-
tective Ted Wolters. Not convinced
that Mr. Winkler had driven away
SIR. Mack set out in his car to To-
cate him. and ne too returned In
few minutes. only 10 report that
ne could not locate him. Just "a
he returned after his futile search.
Motorcycle Officer Smith returned
from his trip toward Niles. accom-
panied by two Niles Motorcycle po-
licemen whom he met on the road
and who told him they had not
seen any car answering the descrip-
ton Of the car in which the hold
UP men had fed. whereupon all
three returned to the Mack home 10
renew the searcs in other diree-
tiOns
WinkIer Solves Holdup
Chief Lane. Cart. Hamilton and
Detective Wolters then set out to
find WinkIer. and their search was
successful. They found him at the
westerly end of Mort ashore drive
and on questioning him as to whe-
Their ne had been held up and robbed |
he professed utter Ignorance of any
holdup. and said the officers must
have been wrongly informed.
"Didn't another car drive up
alongside yours and didn't a man
from IT step on the running board
of your car. and force You 10 hold
up your hands, he was asked by
the officers
A hearty laugh was Winkler's on
" repIv The laughter didn't go
very we'll with the officers, and Mr.
Winkler FASTENED 10 explain not on
IN his laughter but also the 'holdup.'
ct see it all now" Mr.. Winkler
said. Il was held up all right, but
II was nothing the police can do
about. That was only my
son who stopped me on the street !
10 get some money from me"
And then the officers laughed too |
Don't give the story 10 the news
papers." was Mr.. Mack's parting /
word TO the police. unaware that a |
News-Times reporter was on the |
scene with Officer Diver.