The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-04
GANG OF YEGGS RAIDS IS
PLACES, ESCAPES POLICE
IN WILD night AUTO RACE
Nine Filling Stations and
Four Drug Stores Are
Entered by Band.
$3.50 is TOTAL OF LOOT
Thugs in Stolen Car EVade
PurSuerS, Travelling at
65- Mile Clip.
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
The automobile used by the
yeggs was found by PatroIman
Bertram Walker this morning
near the north gate of Indiana
WOmanS Prison, E. Michigan st.
Using a high-Speed stolen autos
mobile three yeggS raided nine fill
ing stations and four drug stores be-
tween midnight and a. m. today
and escaped from police, after a
speed contest in which the police
machine, travelling siXty-five miles
an hour was outdistanced.
The burglars, seen three times
during their hours of activity, left
behind only one clew, a blood
stained handkerchief.
In nearly all the raids the yeggs
battered the combination from the
safe in the gas station or drug store,
but in several cases we're unable to
open the inner door.
They obtained no loot in four of
the robberies and their total haul
did not amount to more than $3.50,
it is believed.
Sight Yeggs' Car
Sergt. Orel Chitwood and squad
in one of the police night-riding
autos, sighted the yeggs' car speed
ing along without lights near Forty
Sixth ST. and College Ave.
They evidently had just left the
Mueller-Richart drug store, at that
corner, where they took $3.50 from
the cash register.
The police machine started in
pursuit at siXty-fve miles an hour,
bu the robbers auto rapidly pulled
away and last was seen five blocks
ahead.
Police said the auto, a Stutz, was
stolen from in front of the home
of George Spindler, $500 Washing
ton Blvd, earlier in the night.
Police Arc Called
Oscar Bowman, 1449 Montcalm
St., first called police attention to
the raiders at l a. m. He saw the
bandit auto parked in the Western
Oil Company filling station at Key
stone and Southeastern AYES. Bow
man drove to another filling station
and called police. When he re-
turned, the machine was gone.
Police found piece of window
glass had been broken out near the
lock and the safe combination bat
tered off, but the safe was not en-
tered, and the burglars got nothing.
Apparently the work of the
gang, police later found that glass
had been cut near a window lock at
the Western Oil Company filling
station, Madison Ave. and Pleasant
Run Pkwy. The combination also
was battered from the safe, but the
safe not opened.
An attempt to get in the Standard
Oil Company station on an opposite
corner failed, police said.
Get First Loot
The thieves got their first loot at
the Western Oil Company station,
Forty-SiXth and Illinois SITS. Fore
ing open the safe, they obtained $25
and $50 in coupon books and per-
sonal insurance papers of Attend
ant Roy Mongel.
At a station of the same COM
pany at Morris st. and Belmont
Ave, they got $35, after battering
open the safe and looting the cash
register. They broke into another
Western OIL filling station at Thir-
ty-Eighth S.. and Fall Greek Blvd.
but satisfied themselves with taking
fourteen gallons of gasoline and
can of grease.
At the Western Oil stations at
Pershing Ave. and Sixteenth st. and
Harding st. and Burdsal Pkwy.,
combinations were battered from
the safes, but attendants were un-
able to tell amount of the loot.
Nothing was taken from the
same company's station at Kenwood
Ave. and Thirty Eighth St.. but
the combination was torn from the
safe.
Find Clew at Erug Store
Police found their bloody hand
kerchief cleW at the Charles Blink
ley drug store, $500 College Ave. One
OF the burglars cut his hand break
mig the window. Ten dollars was
taken from the cash register and
the safe was battered, but not
opened.
George Clark, 625 E. Fifty-Ninth
st., said he saw the three burglars
as they left in a large car"
Al the Edgar Arm drug store,
SOTO E. Tenth ST., SOS in cash and
$25 worth of cigarets, cigars and
toilet water was taken. The safe
combination was battered off at the
Judson Clark drug store, 3401 w.
Michigan t. Four dollars was taken
from a postofflce substation drawer,
and some merchandise.