The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
SEVEN Held in
COUNTRY Club
BANDIT HUNT
Six Men Are Arrested at
Lebanon; City Furniture
Dealer Is Suspect.
VICTIMS TELL OF RAID
100000 Estimate of Loot;
Parade Prisoners for
Identification.

Police are holding six men, arrest
ed in a green KiSsel sedan at Leba-
non this morning, and local west
side furniture dealer as suspects in
the 100000 Broadmoor Country
Club holdup Wednesday night.
More than half dozen victims of
the bar dts had viewed the suspects
at noon and partially identified some
of the men.
More of the holdup victims were
to view the suspects this afternoon
! and if they continue to identify
them as the bandits, the suspects
will be charged with the holdup,
Police Chief Claude M. Worley and
Detective Chief Jerry Kinney said.
A police emergency squad headed
by Lieut., Otto Petis chased the
green sedan to Lebanon after a call
was received that the car, with nine
men in it was in an alley near Thir-
tieth and Illinois SITS.
MOtOrist Gives Tip
A motorist told police at Lebanon
that he had seen two men in
Packard coupe talking TO those in
the green sedan this side of Lebanon
and that the coupe turned off the
main road about four miles from
Lebanon.
Illinois towns have been called to
watch for the coupe.
One of the suspects is red-haired
and one of the bandits was red
haired, Sol Meyer, Meyer-Kiser
Bank, said.
Doubts Men Are Bandits
Arthur S. Lubell, manager of the
club, viewed the suspects and said
they did not resemble the bandits
he saw.
The local suspect was picked up
for questioning because he drives
a car similar to the one used in the
hold-up.
The green car in which the six
men were arrested at Lebanon car
ried an Illinois license. None of the
men carried guns and there was no
trace of any of the Country Club
loot in the machine.
The driver of the green car
speeded up to sixty miles an hour
and was not overtaken until the
outskirts of Lebanon we're reached
at about 1915 a. IN.
Petit and his men with their re-
volvers and riot rifles, lined the six
men up along the road and searched
them.
Refuse to Give Names
They refused to give their names
or state their business.
Questioned separately by detec-
tives, they gave Chicago addresses
and said they were chauffeurs, en-
gagged in driving automobiles from
factories to dealers.
Among the robbery victims who
viewed the suspects at headquar-
ters and picked out various ones as
resembling the bandits they saw
were A. M. RoSenthal, Leslie Meyer,
Sol Schloss, Charles Summers, Jo-
seph Block, Fero Meyer and Jacob
Wolf.
Detectives Young and Stages this
afternoon found three caps and two
red handkerchiefs at Thirtieth st.
and KeSsler Blvd, believed to have
! peen uSeQ Dy Jne bandits.
A slip of paper, dropped by one
of the bandits, is the best one of the
clews police have to the robber gang
which interruted the annual Speed
way frolic at the Country Club and
thirty minutes later drove off with
loot estimated at 100000, in three
canvas satchels.
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a woman, an address, and what ap-
pears to be a telephone number are
scribbled on the paper in pencil.
Detectives checked postoffice
directories today to determine to
what city the address might refer
No Trace in Chicago
A call to Chicago brought the in
formation that there is no such
street or telephone number there
The canvas bags used by the bandits
bore the inscription, Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago, but might have
been obtained in almost any city
The hold-up victims were loath
to list their losses when Lieut.. Vic
tor Houston and emergency squad
arrived at the scene last night.
Police Chief Claude M. Worley
this morning ordered detectives to
the job of questioning each of the
victims, to compile complete list
Of the jewelry and money taken.
From the stores and manufactur-
ers of the jewelry, a detailed de-
scription of the finery will be OBJ
tanned and broadcast to all large
cities.
About $50 club members and
guests we're dancing and visiting
about the clubhouse when the
bandits, estimated from seven to
fourteen, entered.
Jacob H. Vol. White Furniture
Company, was the first to encounter
the holdup men. He had driven
his car to the entrance of the build
ing and was waiting for his wife.
Five or six men gathered about
the machine, he said, pointing
sawed-off shotguns and revolvers at
him.
"Get inside" they ordered with
much profanity. He obeyed.
Al about the earne time the otsr,