The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-07
BLAZING GUNS
END FLIGHT OF
POLICE QUARRY
Alleged Child AcCoSter Is
Shot; Bandit Suspects
Auto RiddIed.

Guns blazed throughout Indian
apolis over the weekend, with
disastrous results for alleged bandits
and criminals.
Shot in the left hip when he fled
from a policeman Sunday afternoon,
Jacob f. Rowe. %, of 1915 Belle-Vieu
place. is held today at city hospital
on vagrancy charges. He is alleged
TO have made insulting remarks to
two girls, II and 10 years old. When
approached by Patrolman Hod Eller,
Of world series fame as a Cincinnati
pitcher in the BLACK Sox" scandal,
Rome fed and Eller fired a shot
which brought down the fleeing
man.
a police squad in charge of
Sergeant Leo Trautman riddled an
automobile driven by Herman II.
Rhude, 81, of 234 Blake street, with
bullets in a chase Saturday night.
Rhude suffered severe wounds to
his right leg when he ran into a
barb wire fence after he leaped from
his disabled automobile at Tenth
street and Belmont avenue and
started to flee on foot.
Companion Held
Joseph Troy. 81. of Sal West Mer-
ril street, a companion Of Rhude in
the car. is held on a vagrancy
charge. while charges of driving I'M
der influence of liquor, speeding,
reckless driving and resisting an Of
hcer were lodged against Rhude.
Police say descriptions of the two
talIey with those Of two bandits who
slugged George Cox, SO, of Sc South
La Sale street. and robbed him Of
50 at Camp Sullivan park Sat
urday night.
Using two empty guns. a red
haired bandit staged four holdups in
twenty minutes Sunday night. Sam
Louis. 1923 East Washington street,
grocer, resisted the bandit and took
away both his guns in fight The
eunman struck the grocer on the
head with a gun butt and fled, leav-
ing his unloaded weapons and his
cap.
Stages -Four Jobs
Previously he had taken $35 from
Ray c. Cutler, 1924 North Euclid
avenue, in holdup of an Indian fill
ing station at State and Southeast
ern avenue: S25 from John D. Rob-
erts, q, of 1714 oxford street, Shell
filling station attendant at State.
avenue and Washington street; and
SO from Harry Grippe, "a, OF 1912
North Olney street, proprietor of the
Do-Nut shop. 1926 East Washington
street
Cecil Johnson, %, was arrested
Saturday night charged with being
the third member Of the trio alleged
to have looted the Fishers National
bank of $4,000 on Feb. "A.
James Ryan and Wilbur Ferguson,
who were sentenced to serve ten
years each for bank banditry in the
Hamilton county court and who now
are in Jail at Noblesville, are al
legged to have implicated Johnson in
the hoIdup. johnson denied guilt
when arrested. He will be turned
over to Noblesville officials.
Claim RObberies Solved
Robbery of fifteen safes and scores
Of stores and theft of fifty auto
mobiles N northern Indiana will be
solved with arrest of three Wabash
men late Saturday night. Lieutenant
Bridges OF the state police declared
today.
The men, Jesse Millican, 81;
George Coon, %, and Herbert King,
30, were arrested in Millican's auto
mobile parked in front of Wabash
restaurant and the car contained a
kit of burglar tools, officers declare.
The three were turned over to OFF,
Sials of Niles, Mich. for trial on
charges OF robbing the safe of a gen.
eral store there.
Elmer Smith, 1045 River avenue,
was charged with carrying concealed
weapons and William Barger, SIS
West Ray street, with possession of
liquor and vagrancy after Tony
Solotke, junk yard operator at 544
South Missouri street. reported two
men attempted to hold him UP.
Solotke is alleged to have identified
Barger He yelled when one OF the
men flashed a gun, Solotke told po-
lice, and the men fled.