The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-04
BANDIT LOOT TOTALS $1,7OOIN
WEEK END RAIDS: POLICE GUNS
ROUT GANG OF TIRE THIEVES
Street Car Robbed of $55,
and Gas Station Yields
$500.

6dIlQ1US ana burglars ODGduleC
about $1,7OO worth of loot in six
hold-ups and a number of bur-
glaries over the weekend.
Two burglar suspects we're ar
rested. Two tire thieves we're rout-
ed by bullets from a patrolman's
gun.
A lone Negro bandit held up a
filling station and a street car crew
Sunday night.
Ralph Doom, 1882 E. Tenth st.
conductor on an Indiana Ave. car
told police the bandit boarded the
car as it turned back to the city al
Fourteenth and West Sts., pulled a
gun and took $55.
Charles Riddle, AS w. Twenty
First ST., attendant at the Silver
Flash filling station at Tenth St
and Senate Ave. was preparing to
leave when the Negro entered with
his gun drawn and took Sc.
Two Bandits Get $500
Harold Dyer, %, of 1925 N. Talbot
Ave-, attendant at the Standard Oil
Company filling station at Eleventh
st. and Capitol Ave, was held ur
by two men who asked him direc-
lions on road map. They took
5000 from the cash register and
escaped in their auto.
Another lone Negro held ur
Chester Ryan, 1910 Sturm Ave-, at
tendant at the Silver Flash station
at Blake and Michigan Sts., and
escaped with $40.
William Tucker, 410 E. st. Clair
St., manager of the Standard gro
Gerry at 1413 N. Illinois St, recog
nized a Negro, Saturday night, as
the bandit who held up the place
two months ago. Tucker started to
run, but was halted as the Negro
drew a revolver. The bandit took
SIS.
Youth Is DisrObed
Lewis Fries, 10, of 1718 Douglass
ST., said two men he accompanied
into an alley in the 100 block Doug
lass st. for a drink, overpowered him
and removed his suit of clothes.
Officers saw Fries running along
washington st. in his underwear
They borrowed overalls at filling
station and sent him home.
Patrolma Thomas Mccormick sur
prised a Negro and white man re-
moving tires from truck in the
ward of the Standard Paving Com
pany, Twenty-Fifth st. and the Belt
Railroad. He fired into the air and
at the tires of their automobile as
they fled.
Claims to Be Guard
Called to an apartment building
at 1909 N. Illinois ST., police found
Harry Sebel, 1116 N. Capitol Ave,
Apt. 100, with blackjack protrud-
ing from his pocket and pistol in
another pocket. Sebel said he was
watching the apartment of woman
friend, but the woman denied any
recent friendship with Sebel.
Lieut.. Patrick O'Connor and squad
arrested Negro proving about the
Riley Hospital grounds at $50 a. m
today.
Mrs. Nellie Seegood, Apt. q, the
Cambridge Apartments, told police
she had been robbed of Silt, cloth
ing valued at $3.50, a phonograplt
valued at $50 and jewelry worth
,$65.
Trio Steals Clothing
Mrs. Seegood said she asked a
young man to drive her mother
Mrs. Josephine Geiss, to Vincennes
Ind. The youth with two Others
loaded up the clothing, a handbag
containing the cash and the phon-
agraph, and drove away.
Some one broke into the Colonial
Theater and turned on all the lights
and stole $40 from his desk, Mana
ger L. E. Harrison told police.
Mrs. Neil McIntrye, 723 E. Fifty
Third St., wife of the golf profess
sional at the Highland Golf ano
Country Club, reported two rings
worth $50, stolen at the club.
Player Piano Robbed
William Eyester, 4O25 Ruckle st.
valued auto parts taken from his
garage at $3.50.
B. E. Dixon, COB w. Thirtieth St.
proprietor Of the La Monica Coffee
Shop, 1922 Northwestern Ave, re-
ported burglars cut a screen anc
broke a door glass to get in anc
steal $14 from a piano Saturday
night.
Ralph Hobson, New York City
said $50 was stolen from his room
at the Claypool.
Police investigated robbery al
the home of william Eckstein, 143(
Silver Ave. Eckstein said four mer
came to his home Sunday night If
an automobile and one exhibited {
gun and some sort of a badge.
They ordered him into the house
and took So from his pocket and E
gun valued at SIS from a dresser
drawer. AS they left they ordered
him to stay inside or be killed.
Liquor Causes Shooting
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