The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-20
BANDITS CARRY
ST. LOUIS MAN IN
AUTO 29D MILES
Driven to City in Own Car
After Being Robbed He
Tells Police,


Riding 200 miles at the point Of
a revolver in my own automobile.
robbed Of my money, is something I
never experienced before and some-
thing 1 don't care for in the future, !"
said B. 3. Dew, 1917 Locust st, St
Louis, No, at police headquarters to-
day
His story of a bcld-up that took
place in East 81. Louis, Ill.,. at 2 p. m.
Friday and ended at Memorial Park
cemetery, east of the city. about 3
a, m. today. when he was ordered
out of the, car five miles east OF the
city on the National road. reads like
fiction.
The man, about 80, well dressed and
clean-cut, speaking fine English, &C
companied by cleverly dressed wonl-
an, entered the salesrooms OF the
quito company for which Dew works
in st. Louis and looked over the best
model car.
Demonstration Arranged
A demonstration was arranged for
the afternoon. Two suitcases were to
be delivered to East st. Louis where
the balance of the money for the car
was to be obtained
Once in East ST. Louis Dew said he
attempted TO turn back but was
ordered, at the point of a gun, to pro-
coed.
you have your game" said the
xobber, "and we have ours. This time
we win and you lose"
"a short distance down the road"
said Dew the man ordered me to turn
of the road and I did. When he said
Stop I was ordered out of the car.
I was ordered to place my hands
over my head, and pair Of hand
cuffs were placed on them. My
pockets were rified of s14. My watch
was not taken when I told them 1t
was a present from my wife. A
diamond pin was overlooked because.
When put up my hands, my coat
covered it.
Woman Holds Gun
ct was ordered to sit beside the man,
and the woman in the rear seat held
a large revolver on me. The bandit
drove. Several times we stopped for
gas. The man would cover me and
the woman would supervise the pur-
chase of gas and oil and pay for it
with my money. At Vandalia, H., we
turned down side street and the
woman got out and returned with
some sandwiches and coffee.
AT each stop she was told to be
ready to leave quickly, the man always
figuring that some way might have
been found to discover me missing"
said Dew.
when we passed through here aft
er midnight we stopped at a filing
station and two policemen passed the
car. was afraid to move. The man
said once when ne left st. Louis that
any move out Of me would finish
me- When we reached the spot near
where I was found the man stopped.
ordered me out of the car and gave to
the woman a key to unlock the cuffs.
They then proceeded"
Dew Is Picked Up
Hugh Barnes, 1904 n. Pennsylvania
St.. employed at the Spink-Arms
Apartment garage. picked Dew up
and brought him to police headquar-
tiers. Hgsaid he remembered passing
the car near Knightstown, Ind.
Dew said the man called his sup
posed wife May and she impressed
him as a "dope lser" The man fire.
quentIy mentioned that the St. Louis
police knew him as Al, and that he
and other members of a gang robbed
a bank in ST. Louis Friday. No re-
ports Of robbery have reached here.
Dew, after eating lunch with Capt.
Frank Row. awaited money to return
to St Louis