The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
GUNMEN OBTAIN
$1,000 LOOT IN
WEEKEND JOBS
Safecrackers Get 1927 at
Coal Yard; HoIdupS Keep
Police Busy.

Gunner and robbers ran ram
pant in Indianapolis over the week
end obtaining loot valued at more
than $1,000 in a series of holdups,
house breakings and safe crackings.
Yeggmen who blew a safe at the
coal yard Office operated by John G..
Keller, 624 East Thirty-fourth
street, obtained s227. The robbery
committed Saturday night was dis
covered by Keller.
Three other safe jobs proved less
profitable to yeggmen. At the Fed
eral Coal Company, 1920 East North
street. safe crackers got only SIS.
$4,000 in Notes Stolen
Breaking into the Cash Coal
Company, 1912 East Michigan
street, by smashing the front door
glass, thieves found a battered safe
containing no money.
Only small change was obtained
by the safe blowers who forced
their way into the Stewart Coal
Company, 1888 Roosevelt avenue,
Sunday night They used nitro
glycerine to blow the door.
Yeggs who broke through a door
IN the American Buncher Company
Offices, Fifty-fourth street and the
Monon railroad, opened an I'M
locked safe and took $4,000 in I'M
negotiable notes and securities, po-
lice we're told today.
JeweIry Store Robbed
Hurting brick through the show
window of the Stanley Jewelry Com
pany, 1874 West Washington street,
robbers today obtained watches and
other jeWelry valued at $175.
Walter Reynolds, 5127 North Ar
senal avenue, filling station attend
ant at College avenue and Forty
ninth street, Sunday night, was
forced to open the safe and turn
over SIS to a lone bandit. The ban
dit locked Reynolds in the lavatory
after the robbery.
Two men robbed Chester Meyer,
20, R. r. 7, Box IS, filling station
attendant at 3540 west Washington
street, of $12 Sunday night.
Five Indiana Bell Telephone Com
pany pay stations downtown yielded
about SIS to burglars who jimmied
them open Sunday night, according
to H. c. Beary Of the phone COM
pany today.
They we're located at the SEVERN,
two in the Denison, Traction
Terminal and a drug store at Illi-
nois and Market streets.
Mrs. c. r. Bartlit, 104 Hampton
drive, today reported theft of two
oriental rugs and several blankets,
worth $500. from her home. Other
robberies reported:
Madison Sier. 1921 West Vermont street.
filling station attendant. $780, Herbert
Peters. 1888 North Capitol avenue. rug and
table scarf $50; Mrs Russell WEIGH, Apt.
20. eli North Pennsylvania street. cloth
ing. 500, Morris Fisher. Ill East Twenty
fifth street. $50: Morris Levin. 1888
Howard street clothing and blankets. SOS:
restaurant. 642 East Thirty-eighth street.
SO: National Refining Company filling
station. Sixteenth street and Kessler boule
ward. S45: Arthur s. Mills. IT'S Kelly
street. laundry truck driver, SIS: Mrs.
Myrl Carlton. 1864 Gent avenue. Sill
William Bowers Negro. 1852 North Ala
bama street. $40; Harry Hohlt. r. r. 7,
BOX 514 SIG; Miss Mary Driftwood. 10. of
14lS Oliver avenue, purse snatched. So
and $50 watch; Miss Geneva Gill. Lin
coin, purse snatched. $40; Miss Naomi
Gentry. 544 North oxford street. purse
snatched. s140: Mrs. Alice Batlett, 1O4
West Hampton drive, rug. value unesti-
mated; H. Foster, poolroom lao Virginia
avenue. merchandise valued at $50. and
lie Roy Clark. POPS Mabe street. ring
valued at $50. stoken from Y NJ G. A.
locker