The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-10
POLICE GO ON
12-HOUR SHIFTS
IN BANDIT WAR
HoId-Up Wave Brings
Drastic Action; WorIey
Orders Cleanup.
ROB GROCERY MANAGER
Car Conductor Also Victim;
All LoitererS Will Be
Questioned.

indianapolis police were ordered
on a twelve-hour day basis by Police
Chief Claude M. Worley today, as
the opening shot in a fight against
banditry here.
Two hold-ups Wednesday night
were given as the immediate cause
for the order. In one of these, two
bandits obtained $40 from the man
ager of a Kroger grocery and in the
other an armed bandit took $8 and
102 street car tokens from a Mime
sofa line conductor.
Worley's order affects about 40C
men now on eight-hour shifts, who
work from a. m. to 3 p. m. and
from IL p. m. to a. m.
Those on the former shift will add
four hours to their time, working
from a. m. to 7 p. m, while those
on the Z a. m. to 3 p. m. shift will
work from p. m. to a. m.
Full Protection Given
The lis men now on the shift
from IL p. m. to a. m. will work
from 6 p. m. to a. m, which will
permit adequate force to protect the
city during the time required to
change shifts, being assigned to
plain clothes, shotgun squads, rid
ing squads and other details, Wor-
ley said.
The order affects all members of
the police department except ma
irons, turnkeys and telephone op-
orators, Chief Worley said
Worley denied that his order was
designed to effect wholesale raids,
but stated that all suspicious char
acters, habitual loafers, vagabonds
and others lacking visible means of
support will be questioned.
Unless suspects can prove they
are or recently have been employed,
they will be jailed. Worley said.
Convictions Wanted.
"We are not after any arrest rec
ords. 1t is convictions we want" said
Worley.
Points in the city advantageous to
bandits will be patrolled and
guarded by police, Worley said.
"Banditry must cease in India
napolis. Hold-upS, on the street, in
filling stations and chain stores have
been too frequent recently. Ban
dts have become too fragrant in
their activities recently and they
must be checked" he declared.
"This Is drive on criminals,
brought about through cleanup Or
ders issued in Chicago and Detroit.
Many Of these criminals are mi
grating to indianapolis. On arriv-
ing here these refugees will be ar
rested" said Worley.
"This is not a drive on innocent
citizens, but drive on the poolroom
loafer and the loiterer with no Wis
ible support. These men are our
bandits"
Worley explained 1t was only in
extreme emergency that members of
the police department are put on a
twelve-hour shift, but that the sit
uation makes it imperative to do SO
at this time.
Two Are Robbed
Bandits obtained $78 and 102
street car tokens in the two hold
ups Wednesday.
Joe Kiefer, AIT N. Chester Ave-,
manager of Kroger grocery at 1926
Lexington Ave-, was robbed of $40
taken from the cash register by two
armed bandits who locked him in a
rear room of the store. He was re-
leased by j. G. Reynolds of Browns
burg, Ind, attracted by beating on
Theodore Mcbride, 102 w. Nine
teenth ST., conductor on the Min
neSota line, was held up at State
Ave. and robbed of SO and 102 token
by bandit who boarded the car
with pistol drawn. Henry Fischer,
passenger of 1916 Hoyt Ave, was
searched, but not robbed. Willard
Kennedy, Negro, 1o45 Cornell Ave,
another passenger, was not mo-
Tested.