The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-02
GOLD COAST
GIRL FORCED
into HOLDUPS
Nurse Kidnapped by Bandits,
Who Make Her Pilot
RObber Auto.
SLUG PHONE OPERATOR
Knew Too Much About
Gang Activities Victim
Tells Friends.

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CHICAGO. May 1.-Two kidnap-
ings of young women, one in the
Gold Coast district and another in
the rOoming houses area in the
backyard of the exclusive section,
spurred police today in a hunt for
a pretty telephone operator and in
vestigation Of the abduction of a
nurse.
Not far from the home of Mayor
William Hale Thompson, bandits
kidnapped Miss Dolores Bannon,
nurse, and took her for a holdup
tour Of the Gold Coast, forcing her
to drive in her escorts new auto
mobile Later they freed her
Gangsters seized Miss RoSahe
RizzO in a rooming house and
spirited her away. Police feared she
had been taken for a ride" because
She knew too much about gang
land activity.
Phone Girl Slugged
Miss Rizzo, an attractive 20-year-
old telephone operator, went auto
mobile riding last night with John
Rooney, who has a police record of
considerable length. She returned
with blackened eye and a split
lip, She told fellow dodgers she had
been beaten by Rooney and a COM
panion because she knew too
much" about Rooney.
Later, Rooney and his companion,
so far unidentified, returned to Miss
Rizzo'S house and seized her, flee
ing in an automobile. AS they left,
one Of them fired several shots into
the walls of Miss Rizzo's room and
knocked a boarder unconscious.
Miss Rizzo attempted to escape
the gangsters by fleeing by a back
staircase. She was dragged screams
ing from the house, after the kid
naperS repulsed WouId-be reScuerS.
Victim Is PROSTATE
Miss Bannon was PROSTATE fol-
lowing her experience with the two
bandits in their Gold Coast holdup
tour.
The two holdup men, using re-
volver they had taken from a serv-
ice prize winning Evanston patrol
man, seized Miss Bannon, %, while
she sat in an expensive coupe on the
Lake drive awaiting her escort,
Clayton Carr Sherman, wealthy
paper company president, who had
left the automobile to retrieve his
hat blown of by the wind.
Sherman and Miss Bannon were
returning from a theater in Chi
cago.
The young man said he saw the
two men approach the coupe, but
thought they were policemen.
Disappear With Car
Before he could return to the car,
the two men had overpowered Miss
Damon and had disappeared with
the car.
Four hours later, the young
woman stumbled up the steps Of
the Sherman home where young
Sherman lives with his father. She
collapsed after telling her story
She said that the two men sur
prised her in the coupe and showed
a revolver against her, ordering her
not to scream.
We're stickup men, one of
them said. We want you for blind
so the cops won't stop us. Do what
we tell you and we won't hurt you,'"
Miss BannOn said.
l..
The girl said they drove alongside
a parked car in Oak park, suburb,
and robbed man and woman Of 81.
Then they told me to drive. As
We passed two women I screamed,
but the women only started run
ming. Anyway spoiled that hold
up"
After another holdup of a parked
automobile, the young woman said
the bandits planned to rob delica-
lessen store.
She said she begged them to stop
and finally, they started driving
back toward Evanston.
After instructing her to drive
Straight home, the two men
turned the coupe over to her and
disappeared.