The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-23
BANDITS BEAT
ARMORED CAR
TO BANK CASH
Loot Of More Than $4,000
Taken at Forty-Second
st. Institution.
AIRPLANEs AID POLICE
Money Being Prepared for
Transfer Scooped From
v Cashiers Table.

OQOttiOt 0Si~
Half an hour before an armored
truck was to arrive to take the
money to a downtown bank, three
youthful bandits held up the Forty
Second Street 6 ate Bank, 4209 Col
lege Ave-, and escaped with between
$4,000 and $1,000.
A fourth bandit waited in their
auto outside.
THE bandits, waving revolvers,
forced five bank employees, a State
bank examiner and three customers,
in the bank when they entered, in
70 the vault. Nine or ten customers
who entered While the hold-up Wass
In progress we're ushered into the
vault with the others.
They scooped up the money which
J. Clark Mills, cashier was prepar-
ing to turn over to the men in the
Merchants Trucking Company ar
nnored truck.
They fled west in an old Chevro-
let touring car parked outside.
About $1,000 of the loot consisted
of loose bills taken from the cages.
The remainder, $1,000, was wrapped
in one package for the truck.
sta. 2 Senator Sumner Clancy, vice
president Of the bank, announced
that the loss was covered fully by
insurance, and said the robbery
would not affect bank affairs and
business would be continued as usual.
Two police emergency squads,
deputy sheriffs and four police mo-
tor squads we're aided in the hunt
for the bandits by two United States
Army planes from Schoen Field, Fl
Benjamin Harrison.
1.-THE fliers watched roads around
he city.
william j. Clark, Marion County
Bankers Association, secretary, an
iiounced that a $1,000 reward would
he paid by the association for the
apprehension of the bandits.
Two hundred fifty dollars will be
paid for the arrest of each bandit,
Clark said.
Walked In Quietly
The three bandits, all dressed in
light suits and wearing caps, walked
quietly into the bank. One stationed
himself at the door and all drew
guns. Two of the youths were about
five feet nine inches tall and the
other was several inches taller,
bank employees said.
AS the others threatened the
customers and employees with their
revolvers, the tallest tried to open
the door leading from the front
of the bank to the cages.
The knob twisted of In his hand
SO he jumped the seven-foot parti-
ton. The second bandit jumped
the partition and joined him and
the two herded the bank employees
into the vault and closed the screen
door, but left the outside door open.
"And Keep still"
'Lie down on your face and keep
still. We won't hurt you. If you
move 1t will be too bad" they
warned.
j. M. West, State bank examiner,
was checking the institutions books
and was lodged in the vault with
employees. \
AS the customers entered the
bank they were herded back into
the vault with the others.
m F. L. Ralya, Ala w. Thirtieth st.,
las presenting check to be
certified when the bandits entered.
They took So from his pocketbook.
Albert Frost, GAO Haverford Ave-,
another customer, was forced to lie
on the floor.
Struck at Customer
Perry A. Adams, Bohannon Up
town Sales Company manager,
torty-Second st. and Broadway,
dropped to his knees to avoid being
slugged from behind by one of the
bandits.
II was standing at the tellers
window when heard someone be-
hind me say, Crack the son-of "a
gun If he don't Get down. Adams
said.
turned just In Time TO see some
one strike at me with an automatic.
stepped back. and, obeying his
order. dropped to my knees"
p. M. Rhodehamel, 2946 N. Della
ware ST.; Milton Mills, zionsville;
Joseph P. Henly and Miss Ellen
Lacy, 20, of 2461 Carrollton Ave-,
were other employees in the bank.
What's 1t All About!
1T seemed conical to me, wasn't
afraid" said Miss Lacy. "When the
people kept coming in and the rob-
bers kept putting them into the
vault / wondered If they would have
room for all Of them.
IT didn't really know what it was
all about. / saw a man climbing
over the cage and noticed he had
q gun. 1t just occurred to me then
that maybe 1t was a hold-up. I
walked to the vault when he told
me to. He told me to keep my head
down"