The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27
STAGE HOLD-UP
Third TIME At
FILLING STATION
Robbery on North Side
Brings Holiday Total
to Five.

A solitary bandit this morning
held up the Standard Oil filing sta.
ton at Twenty-Ninth st. and Capitol
Ave-, bringing the holiday week.
end hold-up total to five. In the
other cases pedestrians were tho
victims. A small total of loot was
gained by the bandits, the filing
station netting the most cash, $40
to $S5. 1t was the third time that
this filling station had been held UP
recently.
Rap at Door
L. e. Fear, 1880 Finley Ave-, at.
tendant at the station, said he
opened up and was fixing the fire
when he heard a rap on the locked
door. Inquiring as to what he
wanted, he was told by the man out.
side that he wanted in"
Once inside, the bandit, who had q
nickel-plated gun. told Fear to open
the safe. Fear told Lieut.. o. D.
Thomas he complied, and asked the
bandit not to harm him as he had q
wife and baby at home. To this the
i bandit replied, That's nothing, /
| have a wife and three kids, but this
company has done me wrong"
Car Drove.m
Just then a car drove into the sta
ton, Fear said, and the bandit or
dered him to go out, wait on the Gus
toner, but not to speak a word or
make a false move.
When the customer came into the
station the bandit covered with his
feet the cash which was on the floor.
After the customer left, Fear said
the bandit asked for some Of the $25
packets usually kept on shelf in the
safe and was surprised when Fear
said he had none, since two collec.
tons had been made Sunday.
Scooping up half-dollars and quar-
ters, but leaving smaller money in
the tray the bandit took few 81
bills from q box in the safe and
seven ones from a pocket in Fears
overalls, and ordered the attendant
into an adjoining room. He called
him to back out to get him a cup Of
drinking water and then said: Get
back in there and don't come out
until am gone" He ran north on
Capitol Ave, Fear said.
Only Three Pennies
Sorry to have to hold anybody
up" said a bandit as he got out Of
an auto alongside of Robert Fowler,
Z N. Eastern Ave, walking near
Eastern Ave. and New York ST.. and
stuck a gun in Fowler's side. "But,
you know I've got q wife and kids
at home that need the dough-" he
added and started through his
victims pockets.
He found but three pennies and
ordered Fowler to walk on down the
street.
Two men in an auto drove up to
Fred Stone, 1923 Larch ST., at New
York st. and Bradley Ave. They
covered Stone, the merchant police
man in that section, searched him
and found no money, but took his
SO revolver and drove away.
Thine same two men are said by po-
lice to have driven to Brookside
and Commerce AYES, where they
met Mark Hafner, 242 S. Walcott
ST., walking along the street. Alight-
ing from the auto they asked the
direction to Tenth st. Hafner told
police as he began walking one man
pulled q revolver and took a purse
and $3.50
Attacked by Two
William Thompson, Negro, 4106
Cornelius Ave, told police he was at
tackled by two hold-up men at For
tieth st. and Boulevard Pl., and
thinks they struck him on the head
with a lead pipe. He was felled and
robbed of Sc he said.
A shawl of foreign weave, valued
at $500, was stolen from the thir-
teenth floor of the SEVERN where
Miss Tessie Silverstein, Charleston
w. Va, the owner was attending a
dinner dance Sunday night. Miss
Silverstein said she left the shawl on
the back of her chair for q few
minutes and on return, found it
missing.
Ward Clidisst, 1920 Sheldon ST.,
reported to police that his home was
entered Sunday and a radio set
valued at 500 taken.