The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-23
BANDIT WOUNDED AND CAPTURED
BY SOUTH SIDE BANK CHIEF AND
HIS AIDS; SECOND R0BBER FLEES
Thug Is Near Death, With
Shotgun SIugS in His
Head.
ADMITS IRViNGTON JOB
President GrappIes With
HoIdup Man, Employees
Rush to His Aid.

One bandit was wounded,
probably fatally; another is
believed to have been shot and
a teller was wounded slightly,
when the 65-year-old president
and three employees Of the
Fountain Square state bank,
1859 Virginia avenue, success
fully resisted a holdup at 10
o clock this morning.
Two others of the gang Of four
escaped.
The bandits we're routed before
they got their hands on any money.
Testimony of those in the desper-
ate scuffle with the bandit inside the,
bank cage indicated that he was
wounded with his own SaWed-off
shotgun when he pulled the trigger
as bank employe pressed the
muzzle, upward.
The bandit confessed he was in
the Irvington state bank holdup,
! 5501 East Washington street, Jan.
s. when four bandits got $21,146. PO-
lice believe he and his gang may
have been in half a dozen other
recent Indiana robberies.
The wounded bandit first gave
his name to Detective William
Englebrigilt ss James Jackson OF
Iberia. La. At city hospital later he
changed this to J. P. Larkins, 80. of
IreVoria, La and gasned out that
his pal was Harry Watson, and. that
Watson's wife Billy, had stayed with
them at the Washington Wednes-
day night. Finally he gave his
name as j. F. Landry.
Money Found in Pockets
Detectives found S1,700 in 500
bills and smaller currency and three
81 900 bonds from the Lafayette
South Side Bank of st. Louis in
Larkin's pockets.
Inside his shirt was a folded pill
low case in which he admitted he
hao intended to carry the Fountain
Square loot. He confessed doing
job in st. Louis
President William NackenhorSt,
3151 Park avenue, and TellerS Val F.
Schneider, a, of 1905 Hoyt avenue;
Eugene w. Strack, q, Of 1861 Brad
bury street, and Carl LaverarZ, %,
of 1867 Hosbrook street were the
heroes of the thrilling battle.
Laveranz received slight wounds on
two fingers of his right hand. AL
though the action was 50 rapid and
confusing that no one could verify
exactly what happened, it was be-
lieved Laveranz was the man who
saved Nackenhorst's life by pressing
the muzzle of the bandits gun up
ward Just as the bandit pulled the
trigger.
Wounded in Head
The left side of the bandits head
vas shattered by the buckShot dis
charge.
Nine officers and employees of the
bank and five or six customers were
in the bank when the bandits
came in.
The bank is in wide room. At
the left Of the entrance is a small
room for customers to wait in. At
the right is railed-off inclosure
behind which President Nacken-
horst sat.
Cages continue in U-Shape around
the back of the room from Nacken-
horsts enclosure to the customers
room, leaving a square lobby.
Gun Drawn by Bandit
One bandit loitered around the
front of the lobby while the second
walked over to Nackenhorst, took
his gun from under his coat and
said:
Come on. The place is being
held up
Nackenhorst walked back through
his inclosure to corner where j.
Walter Dunn, vice-president, 1874
Emerson avenue, was talking With
Mrs. w. C. Carroll. $50 Prospect
street, a customer, and her daugh-
ter
The bandit told Nackenhorst:
Tap him on the shoulder and tell
him about the holdup and to come
along" Nackenhorst obeyed.
They entered the series OF cages
through the doorway near Dunn's
desk and walked on TO the rear OF
the bank, still behind the caging.
The next moment there was
pandemoniurn.
Nackenhorst, mindful that my
grandfather back in 1868 out on the
Ohio river taught me always to hit
the other guy first" Thirled, seized
the bandits throat with both hands
and started choking him.
Schneider Jumps to Aid
Teller Schneider was working near
By. He heard Nackenhorst yell,
The bank is being held up and
dived into the melee. trying TO get
hold of the bandits gun and -four
ishing his own revolver, which he
had picked up from his counter.
Teller Laveranz. who weighs 100
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