The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
eleven Safes
ARE CRACKED
IN YEGG ORGY
26 Homes, Stores, Offices
and Filling Stations
Are Entered.
LOOT IS NEAR 300
WOrTey Tells Officers to
GO Get En- in Fiery
Police Session.
LOOT IS NEAR $1,000
Go get them. or else"

This was Police Chief Claude M.
Worley's order to police officers to-
day as he sorted over reports Of the
weekend burglary carnival and fig
uratively "hit the ceiling"
Calling captains, lieutenants and
sergeantS into his Office and talking
to those on districts by telephone,
Worley threatened to put the force
back on twelve-hour shifts if results
are not obtained in a city-wide
cleanup.
Burglars broke into twenty-six
homes, stores, filing stations and Of
fees over the weekend, obtaining
more than $1,000 loot.
In eleven of the places they bat
tered open safes. From seven Of
the safes they got money.
Filling Stations Are Targets
why, they just about carried the
city away over the weekend" Wor-
ley told the officers. "It wasn't so
much the amount of loot as the
number of places robbed. Get busy
quick, or else. But I don't want
a lot of innocent people rounded
up"
Six filling station safes we're raid
ed early today by the same band Of
robbers who one morning several
weeks ago entered nearly twenty
stores and filling stations, batter
ing open safes at ten Of the filing
stations, police believed
The biggest haul, 5000 was made
at the Standard Oil Company sta
ton at Meridian st. and Russell
Ave. The combination was pried
off the safe and the door "jimmied"
open.
Get $40 Loot
Breaking a window panel and un-
locking the window to get in, the
burglars battered open the safe and
took $40 at the Silver Flash station
at Meridian and Adler SITS.
The same method was used to rob
the Silver Flash sttaion safe at
Shelby st. and Fletcher Ave. of $25.
The combinations we're battered
from safes in Silver Flash stations
at Warman Ave. and Washington
st. and at Denny and New York
Sts., but attendants reported the
burglars failed to get into the money
compartments.
The Standard Oil station at 1909
w. Washington st. also was entered,
but nothing taken. Two men seen
leaving in a green sedan were
suspected.
Break Into Grocery
The band of filling station"
burglars also are believed to be the
ones who broke into the Standard
grocery at 1917 S. Meridian st.,
where SIS was taken.
The safe in the S. N. Calm dry
goods store, 1852 Clifton st., was
broken open and $50 taken.
The combination was battered
from a safe in the Ray S. Brandt
drug store, 6640 E. Washington ST.,
but nothing taken.
Three downtown Office safes were
robbed. From the office safe Of the
Aetna Life Insurance Company, TIA
Traction Terminal Bldg, $82 was
taken.
A filing cabinet safe in the Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company Of New
York office, 603 Continental Bank
Bldg, was pried open and $109 cash
and $25 worth of stamps taken.
Eleven dollars was taken from
United States Casualty Company
safe, 518 K. of P. Bldg. The safe
door was open, but the burglars
broke open a desk drawer to get
the key to the inner compartment.
5000 in Clothing Taken
The home Of A. r. Gray, III E.
Maple Rd., was the heaviest hit.
Clothing valued at 5000 was taken
by burglar Saturday night. Miss
Florence Allen, Louisville, KY, a
guest in the home, lost 5000 worth
Of clothing.
Herman Gurvitz, grocer at 1881
Montcalm ST., told police he found q
side window pried open and the pay
phone and 200 pennies missing.
Christene Redmond, 239 Fulton
ST., reported a diamond ring valued
at $40 missing from his home. Paul
Dubois, 430 N. Meridian ST., re-
ported $42 taken from his trousers
pocket.
A door panel was broken by bur-
glars to get into the East Side
Cleaners, 1886 E. Washington st.
They got no loot.
Burglars Know Way
Burglars knew the lay Of the land
at the Standard Grocery, 548 S.
West st. BY breaking a panel from
a rear door, they gained access to
a stairway. Going up a flight they
found a trap door that led down
to the storeroom. Canned goods and
meats valued at $50 were taken.
The home of Harry Danz, 910
Church St., was ransacked and
jewelry valued at $46 taken.
Twelve dollars and SOS worth of
merchandise, including two shot
guns, was taken from the Otto
Formes hardware store, 522 E.
Washington st. At the Fred Barnes
restaurant, 1922 Northwestern Ave,
SIS was taken from an electric
piano, but the burglars missed
hidden $3.50. Three dollars was
taken from the Marry Tysinger fruit