The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-13
Leave Man Unconscious
Sixth HoId-up of Week.
End.
ESCAPE WITH $3.50
Fur Coat Stolen From Store
WindoW-0ther Losses.

TWO young DanQltS, staging the
sixth hold-up here over the week
end, slugged Otto Zehr, 20, attend
ant at the Independent Auto and
Coal Company, GOA S. Harding ST.,
into Inconsistencies this morning
when he resisted.
The bandits escaped with $3.50,
leaving Zehr lying in the coal yard.
He was found half an hour later
by Thomas Kuchenski, 917 Coffey
ST., who came to the combination
auto supply store. gasoline filling sta
ton and coal and ice yard to make
purchase.
Bought Gasoline
Zehr, who lives at G58 Coffey ST.,
said the two men drove up to the
filing station in a roadster, bought
gasoline and gave him a $40 bill.
They followed him into the station
and one drew a revolver and COM
manded:
Hand over your money. We want
all you've got"
turned the $40 bill.
Fought Captors
The bandits tried to open the ice
house door and then took him into
the coal yard seeking a place in
which to lock him.
AS they were walking into the
coal yard Zehr pulled a hammer
from his pocket and attempted to
strike down the bandit nearest him.
The other bandit struck him over
the head with some instrument and
he lapsed into unconsciousness.
Burglars broke open a display
window at the Fair Store, 311 w.
Washington St, over the weekend
and carried away a $500 fur coat
and five silk robes valued at $40, it
was reported to police this morning.
The other hold-ups over the week
end netted the bandits 1854. Bur
glas obtained about $3.50 in loot in
other robberies.
Other HOld-Ups'
Fred steinberger, 2O37 E. Tenth
ST., and his wife were held up by
two well.dressed youths as they
were leaving the rear door Of his
butcher shop Saturday night. the
bandits escaping with between $500
ard $500.
Two bandits, both wearing sheep
skin coats and answering the de-
scription of two men who have held
up several filling stations in the past
few weeks, held up James Gordon,
Negro, GO, of 2447 Baltimore Ave.
as he passed an alley on Brookside
Ave. near Eleventh ST.. Saturday
night, carried Gordon down the al
ley and took S24 in cash and a watch
valued at $40.
With the command to "stick-em-
up; I'm a gunman from the under
world of Chicago and will shoot II
you make n single misstep," a lone
bandit robbed Albert Henderson,
Speedway City Standard grocery
manager. late Saturday night as he
was preparing to close for the night,
escaping in a machine with SIS.
Negro Bandits
Two Negro bandits held up Charles
Smith, manager Of a Kroger grocery
at 701 Indiana Ave, early Sunday
morning as he was crossing an alley
at California and st. Clair SITS. The
bandits got S84.
Two Negroes. answering the de.
scription of the men who held W
Smith. later held up Edward Miller,
420 w. New York St, at the canal
and New York ST., but only sue
ceeded in getting his watch.
Burglar a Smoker
A burglar, evidently smoker.
stole several boxes of cigars and
cigarets, SO in pennies and some
soda pop frcu the pool room of l..
G. Bolkins, 1888 oliver Ave.
Two drug stores were heavy
losers. At the B. T. Barnhart
pharmacy. 80 f. Thirty Fourth ST.,
S175 was taken while NJ. S. Louder
milk, druggist at 2102 z. Michigan
St.. reported the theft Of $500.
Two diamonds. valued at $685.,
were stolen from the home Of Nose
Katter. 134t Park Ave. While the
family was away. the home of Harry
Gonnpf, 4430 Guilford Ave, was
ransacked, a revolver, box Of cigars,
and $40 in cash being taken