The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-16
ROBBERY WAVE
UNABATED; 19
AUTOS STOLEN
Policeman Captures Bandit
Pair; Thugs Operate
in Gangs.

in the lead in their var with po-
lice over the weekend, with nine
holdups, seven of them successful.
Police, however, gained several I'M
portant victories.
In addition to the hold-ups, home
talent and visiting thieves garnered
several hundred dollars in minor
burglaries and stole nineteen auto
mobiles, valued at $12,075.
Police captured two hold-up men
in the act, arrested four bandit
suspects, and recovered several Of
the automobiles.
One of the hold-ups was staged
shortly after a. m. today. Their
faces masked with handkerchief,
two men entered the Joe Diner"
lunch car, 431 N. Pennsylvania ST.,
forced Attendant Dave Williams, 10,
of 81 N. Illinois ST., to lie on the
floor and took $50 from the cash
register.
Pedestrians Robbed
Two pedestrians and a druggist
were held up Sunday night. One
victim said he was robbed by three
men and the other by five.
George Blake, 4348 Park Ave, was
robbed on Forty-Fourth ST. near
Park Ave. Of $50 and keys. Blake
said five men were in the auto
from which one alighted to rob him
Harry j. OLeary, 1911 Ruckle St.,
was nearly at the front door of his
home when was robbed of SO and
watch by three men.
A nervous youthful bandit held
up E. H. Hornady, druggist, 1902 E.
Michigan ST., and his clerk, Ralph
Gentry, 1921 E. Market ST., and
escaped with $25.
Patrolman Fred Armitage was the
hero of weekend police activities.
Hiding in the waShroom of the Pure
Oil filling station at Washington st.
and Sheffield Ave, he heard some
one tell Attendant John Kramer,
313 Iowa ST., Give me your change,
too"
Takes Two Bandits
Armitage burst into the room with
drawn revolver, took a small auto
matte pistol from John Sweeney, 10,
of Cincinnati, and made Sweeney
and his companion, Clarence
Wright. "a. of st. Louis, stand with
raised hands until the police em-
Urgency arrived.
Sergt Clifford Richter found an
other gun in Wright's pocket.
Sweeney had $45 taken from the
filling station safe in his pocket.
A third bandit at the wheel of
an auto speeded away when
Armitage talked the hold-lp plans.
Arlo Carter, manager of the
Standard grocery at 2618 Speedway
Rd., was the biggest loser in Satur-
day nights hold-ups. Three armed
men took $3.50 cash and $25 in
checks.
Stephan Banglevis, proprietor of
East End Shoe repair shop, 6 N.
Dearborn ST., was robbed of SIC by
two young men with revolverS in
each hand and masked.
Fred Fisher, 306 Creighton Ave,
routed an armed man who at
tempted to hold him up as he was
putting his car in a garage in the
rear Of 1922 N. New Jersey st.
Victim Is Improved
Lee Miller, 80, Negro, 24O5 Paris
Ave, driver for the Monon Fuel
Company, is improved in condition
at the city hospital today. He was
taken there late Saturday night
after an encounter with bandits.
Two men hid in the coal yard at
Michigan st. and Indiana Ave. and
attacked Miller with a paving brick
and iron bar.
Fire is believed to have put thieves
to rout from the oil house at the
Tucker e. Dorsey Manufacturing
Company, 302 S. State Ave-, Satur-
day night. Harry Ingall, Lord and
Noble SITS, saw the blaze and sum-
moned fire department.
Martin Dugan, 153 Blake ST., hit a
burglar he found in his home with a
curtain pole and put him to flight
without loot. Robert Jester, 225
Blake st., saw buglar on the porch
roof, and was commanded to stick
up his hands," but called to his wife
to bring him a gun and the burglar
fed.
A burglar used the coal chute TO
get into the home of the Rev. w. D.
Shannon, Negro, 637 E. Eleventh
ST., while he was at church Sunday
night, and stole IL cents and some
| handkerchief.