The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
YEGGS BLOW
Safes; FAIL
TO GET LOOT
Arrival of Police on Scene
BaIks Thugs in Two
Rites Shops.
BATTER THROUGH WALL
Bakery Robbery Attempt Is
Futile; Fireman and
Boys Bound.
BATTER THROUGH WALL

Blowing open three safes in Rite
Jewelry Shop, 43 South Illinois
street, and in the Rites Cloz Shop,
IS South Illinois street. yeggmen
fed without loot as police appeared
carly today.
A woman was seen to enter the
car used by the yeggmen for their
getaway.
Blowing of the safes In the Illinois
street stores followed an unSucceSS-
full attempt Saturday night to blow
the safe in the Omar Baking Com
pany office, 901 East Sixteenth
street, in which four cracksmen
bound and gagged the Waterman
and three boys, but we're frightened
away when the company sales man.
sger, G. A. Denton, 81 West
Twenty-eighth street, Apt. 101, rang
the front door bell.
Forcing of safes in the two Illinois
street stores was discovered at 1880
this morning. The yeggmen left
trays of rings piled on the floor.
John F. Greer, merchant police
man, noticed lights over the safes
we're extinguished. He telephoned
r. D. Evans, manager, 3039 Central
avenue, who went to the store in a
taxi-
Woman at Scene
Meanwhile. Sergeant Victor Hous-
on and patrolmen Roy Barrett and
Orville Hudson passed the stores
and noticed they were darkened.
AS Evans neared the scene he
heard a man. standing near the
alley, whistle, he said. Shortly
afteward a car roared south on ILL
nois street, picking up a woman and
a man as passengers, a witness told
police.
In their flight the yeggmen left
behind them wires and batteries
used in blowing the safes. Expen-
Siye cloaks and suits were used TO
muffle the explosions. the damage
TO clothing being estimated at more
than $500.
Leave Blast Charge
In the store, police also found
two bottles, each containing an
ounce of nitroglycerin. a glove, a
magazine for d sub-caliber machine
gun, and a clip Of shells for an
automatic revolver.
Entrance to the stores was gained
by cutting a hole fifteen inches
square through a twenty-inch solid
brick wall. The yeggmen worked
in q vacant store building at Al
South Illinois street. gaining en-
trance to it through the Solomon
restaurant. upstairs.
Doors Blown on
While cutting the hole in the wall,
the yeggs ate sandwiches and drank
soft drinks, police learned.
A safe in the clothing Shop hp1
been opened, but it contained moth
ing except records. Doors of the
safes in the jewelry shop were
blown of, but inner doors had not
been forced when the yeggmen ware
frightened away. The safes con-
tanned a large sum of money and
diamonds. proprietors said.
At the Omar Baking Company
Office Saturday night, four men
handcufTed Blueford Elliott, night
fireman, to a guard rail before boil
ers in the basement and used ad-
hesive tape to bind Elliott's son.
Calvin Elliott, II, of 401 North
Noble ST. Get; Charles Archer. 10, of
the same address. and Roy Melville,
IL, of TOT North Noble street, to the
rail. The boys were visiting Elliott
when the four entered.
Combinations Hammered
When Denton reached the plan,
and rang the front bell for admiS-
sion, the crackmen fled, leaving an
eight-ounce bottle of nitroglycerin.
twelve percussion caps, three loaded
magazines for a sub-caiber machine
gun. a pair of handouts. a pair of
pliers, two jimmys, two punches
and a sledge hammer.
Combinations had been hammered
of two safes in the Office. One safe
contained more than $4,000.