The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-05
CITY IS SWEPT
BYNEW WAVE
OF BURGLARY
35 Homes and Places of
Business Are Entered
by Thieves.
$4,000 IN LOOT TAKEN
Two Filling Station Safes
Are Battered Open by
Yeggmen.
$4,000 IN LOOT TAKEN

Yeggmen and burglars staged
another crime carnival here over
the weekend, breaking into thirty
five homes and business places and
obtaining more than $4,000 in loot.
The wave included the battering
open of two filling station safes.
mo loot was obtained from eleven
homes. The burglars we're seen at
work in two homes.
Police arrested four men suspected
Of being burglars and two others
who confessed one of the Saturday
night burglaries.
More places were entered this
weekend than last. This weekend
most of the burglaries were in
homes. A week ago, when more than
twenty-five places were entered and
eleven safes Cracked business
places we're the principal sufferers.
Safes Are Looted
The safes robbed this Sunday
we're in the Western Oil Refining
Company stations at Oliver Ave. and
Division ST., and at Raymond and
Shelby SITS.
Company officials said $3.50 was
stolen from the first station and
$3012 from the second.
Theodore Lloyd, 1e Of 1l57 w.
Twenty Ninth ST., ,urprised two
burglars in his home Sunday night.
They ran without taking anything.
Two men we're seen to enter the
home Of Ebert Middleton, 901 w.
Twenty Eighth st. Called home,
Middleton said they took electric
tools worth, $50.
Four Men Arrested
Lieut.. Patrick O'Connor and
squad arrested four men found in
an auto at Oliver Ave. and Coffey
Sts., early today. Two automobile
headlights we're found in the car,
O'Connor said.
Motor Policemen George Mueller
and Clinton Robson arrested
Floyd Fettinger, "a, and Auro Con-
diff, 25, held under high bonds, as
they we're climbing a ladder into a
room they had rented above q
restaurant at Twentieth and Olney
SITS.
In the room the officers said they
found a revolver, three flashlights,
several punches of keys, asSortments
of cigars and cigarets and 500.
Condif claimed an automobile
parked in front which detectives
later said they learned had been
stolen from Aubrey L. Yates, Sey-
mour
And today the two confessed, ac-
cording to detectives, that they
had broken into filling station at
Twenty First st. and Sherman Dr.,
where they stole $28 and twelve
cartons of cigarets, earlier Saturday
evening.
BlueprintS of what the inventor,
E. j. Boyle, says is a fuelless motor
were among the loot taken Sunday
night from the Boyle home, 1864 N.
Pennsylvania st. Clothing of Mr..
and Mrs. Boyle and a roomer, Miss
Florence Maddox, valued at more
than $500 also was taken.
The burglars did not touch
working model Of the motor in the
basement, Boyle said.
Bath House Looted
James Angelo, proprietor of the
Mcclure Beach bath house, discov-
cred Sunday that the place had
been entered and 200 bathing suits
and 100 towels, value 1925, taken.
Alice Wall, 1884 Central Ave-,
heard a noise and investigated to
discover a burglar had raised the
bedroom window and taken her
purse and $50. The purse was found
by police in a nearby vacant lot.
Opera glasses and revolver were
taken from the home of Roy Rober-
son, 2451 E. Riverside DR.. Miss
Betty Beck, Apt. 26, Of 1920 Park
Ave-, valued silk underwear taken at
$3.50. A lone S. bill was missing
from the home of Robert Hess, 539
N. oxford st.
Orie Phillips, 807 N. Gray ST., list
ed jewelry valued at $50 as loot
taken from his home. Jewelry
valued at $40 also was taken from
the home of George F'ahubath, 759
Terrace Ave. Fred Wheatly, 1861
Leonard ST., said the burglars while
in the neighborhood also visited his
home and took $3.50.
JeweIry Is Stolen
Mrs. Emma Combray, 1921 E.
Michigan ST., told police that bur-
glars entered her home Saturday
night through side window and
stole $270 worth of jewelry.
Burglars broke into the Christie
Machine Company plant, 130 S.
Senate Ave, and stole automobile
tools valued at Sis, belonging to
L. G. Schwartz, 26o3 e. Michigan
ST.. an employe.
Other burglaries reported. Blooms
Loan Company, 229 E. Washington
ST.. saxophone, SIS; Andrew knight,
5000 Madison Ave-. inner tubes, $40;
Herbert Howser, 422 Indiana Ave-,
revolver, $50; Harry Knierhihm, 56o9
Brookville Rd., watch, $15 Miss
Beatrice Turpin, 718 E. Iowa St.,
pocketbook and cash, $1,000.