The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-17

and got into another car parked
there. The one bandit in the orig
inal car drove on east, while the
two bandits drove south, police
were told by farmer.
Take Car From Chauffeur
The night of terror for motorists
started shortly after midnight, when
william r. johnson, Negro, chauf-
feur for Briant Sando, advertising
man, $50 N. Meridian ST., who lives
in Oaklandon, was halted on Thrift
eth St., near the tunnel beneath the
Big Four tracks, north of Pendle-
ton Pike.
Three bandits fired one shot and
Johnson stopped They took the
Buick coupe from him, told him to
run down the road, fired shot at
him as he fed, and then drove
northeast on Pendleton Pike. The
stolen car was driven by the BAN
dts in the shooting about 4 a. m.
A short time later indianapolis
police were notified by Anderson Of
f1cers of four hold-ups on the Pen
dleton Pike and one near Muncie.
Police do not believe the Muncie
job was part Of this gangs opera
tions.
Drive Toward Anderson
The gang evidently drove almost
to Anderson, then turned and came
back toward Indianapolis. At 1890
a. m. L. T. Spafford, superintendent
Of schools of Milroy, Ind, was
stopped three miles south of An
| derson.
The bandits took ST., his watch
and his Master Six Studebaker and
left him standing in the road. This
gave the bandits the three cars in
which they finished the nights
depredations.
An hour later r. j. Chapman OF
Long Beach,. Cal, with his wife and
her brother, j. F. Chain Of Kansas
City, Mo-, were trapped by the three
cars and forced to the side of PEN
dleton pike, between ingalls, and
Fortville.
Anderson police we're notified that
the bandits took between $400 and
$500 from this party. They did not
take the automobile.
Local police were informed that
the Anderson authorities had heard
of two mores robberies in the vi
cinity, but did not have details.
Next definite word from the gang
| came at $40 a. m. from Gem, Ind,
fifteen miles east of indianapolis, on
National Rd.
Because of the general confusion
police did not know exactly whether
there were one or two robberies in
this vicinity. A call came from an
Ohio man who did not give his
name, saying he had been robbed
of $21.
Later police learned that Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Mccoy of Cincinnati
had been robbed at about the same
point where the gun battle occurred.
Bandit Is Identified
When Lieutenant Drinkut went to
Cumberland to call the ambulance
for the wounded bandit, he found
Mr.. and Mrs. Mccoy there. They
went back to the shooting scene
with police and positively identified
the dead man and the wounded
desperate as the ones who had held
them up short time before.
McCoy's pocketbook and money
we're found in a pocket of the
wounded bandit. Mrs. McCoy's
purse, containing $13, her wrist
watch and powder puff, also we're
found in possession of the wounded
man.
Ralph Keys, Oaklandon, today
identified some of the loot found on
the captured bandits as taken from
him in holdup on a sideroad of
the Pendleton pike, southeast of
Oaklandon, at 10:30 p. m. Monday.
Four bandits in a dark blue car
held him up, he said, and drove
away after taking S5.35. a watch, tie
pin and tape line. Koys identified
the watch and tape line at police
headquarters.
In ths stolen Buick coupe. from
which the bandits fought their