The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-19

Curl attempted to draw his
gun, but Troutman covered
him. The man surrendered,
but, like Garman, dared po-
lice to give me a rap"
Troutman saw Curl in the
kitchen after finding a car
with the certificate of title
made out to Garman stand
ing in front of the house.
Curl is a parole violator, accord
ing to the state bureau of criminal
identification and investigation. He
was sentenced to from one to ten
years in Indiana state prison for
second degree burglary, June s,
1929, and was paroled in June this
year.
Garman served a year on the
state penal farm for grand lar
ceny. sentenced Feb. IA, 1927.
Garman was the first Of the al
legged bandit duo to fall in the po-
lice net when motor and merchant
police officers nabbed him within
two minutes after the climax Of TIE
robbery wave when bandits robbed
the Haag Drug Company store,
Thirtieth and Clifton streets.
Saw Him Run Away
Motor Police George Anderson
and Frank Conway rushed to the
store on a radio call in time to see
Garrnan run toward parked auto.
Conway, accompanied by Cecil
Hicks and A. w. McOuat, mer-
chant police, pursued Garman and
nabbed him at Twenty-ninth and
the canal. They said they found
S175.96 on his person along with a
gun and wrist watch identified by
Forest Lightle, 961 West Thirty
third street, as having been stolen
from him in the store holdup.
Nine persons we're lined up in the
drug store robbery.
Miss Drucilla Blackman, 241
North Holmes avenue, offered an
alibi for Garman, telling police he
was at her home at Thursday
night with another man and woman.
I've got a girl who'll tell where
I was" Garman told a reporter at
headquarters. was 1 drinking?
Yes, and plenty!"
Curl, too, said he has girl who
will furnish an alibi for him
Admitting detectives failure to get
confession from the pair. Detec-
tive Captain Herman Rademacher
remarked: Confess? They're hard
boiled. They tell you nothing"
Garman and Curl, it is charged,
started their nights banditry activ-
tiles with the theft of a Nash sedan
from the sales lot of the Jones'
Whitaker Company, Vermont street
and Capitol avenue, police allege.
They attempted to start another car
but when o. NJ. Jones and G. w.
Petty of the company arrived, they
knocked Petty to the ground and
fled.
Attendant Clicked, Beaten
Two minutes later. police say, the
youths, driving the stolen car, forced
Guy Woodruff, 402 North Hamilton
avenue, attendant at the Billy
Grimes service station, DID West
Michigan street, into the car They
elected Woodruff from the auto at
Michigan street and the canal,
when they found he had no money.
In rapid order. it is alleged, the
bandits robbed the Shell oil sta
ton at Indiana avenue and North
street; Standard oil station, Bel
mont and Washington street, get
ting $25, and another Shell station,
Washington street and Warman
avenue.
Still using the stolen car, the
highwaymen are alleged to have OBJ
tanned S25 in the latter job after
choking and beating Horace w.
Little, "a, of IS North Holmes ave-
nue.. attendant.
Speeding west on washington
street the pair, police say. kidnapped
Herschel Gordon, attendant at a
Great Western oil station, Eagle
creek and Washington street. Cor
don told police they threw him from
the car when they failed to obtain
/ money.
The bandits then kidnapped the