The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-19
5ANDITS SLUG
MONEY CARRIER;
STEAL CHECKS
Only Loot Is $4,000 in
Non Negotiable Paper;
Robber Nabbed.

Tuesday afternoon and night gave
police new crimes Of daring nature
to solve.
A bank messenger was beaten at
Georgia and Pennsylvania streets
during the afternoon shopping
hours in view of two score persons
and was robbed Of $4,000 in non
negotiable checks.
A drug store manager and Wom-
an clerk we're abducted, police were
told, and forced to open the drug
store safe, $3.50 being taken.
Combating the crime wave,
police had the following record:
An alleged bandit was captured
after a filling station holdup and is
alleged to have confessed TO many
other holdUps.
Wounded Man Caught
A man wounded by police Tuesday
morning was captured and is being
questioned in auto thefts and ban
ditry cases.
Thomas Fletcher, the bank mes
senger. was knocked down by &c
of the bandits while scores OF pc
destrians looked on. The bandits
grabbed the white canvas money
bag the boy carried and sped away
in the car in which his mate was
waiting at the curb. The checks
aro r,,ortl,Iecs tn the robbers. bank
officials said.
Martin Suess, manager OF the
Walgreen drug store at Senate ave-
nue. and washington street, and
Miss Beulah Linton, 209 Eastern
avenue. a soda fountain clerk at the
drug store, we're kidnapped in SuesS'
car by two bandits as they left TIE
store Tuesday midnight. Alter
driving a short distance, to where
the bandits had parked a car, the
bandits returned to the drug store
with the two, forced SueSs to open
the safe. took $3.50 and then forced
Suess and Miss Linton TO accom-
many them to Noble and Bates
street. where the two we're left, the
bandits escaping in a machine in
which one robber had followed
SueSs' car.
Claim Admission
Lawrence J. Isenbarger, %, of
Lvnn. alias Charles Fremont of
Chicago, alias George L. West of
Chicago. confessed, police say. to six
filling station holdupS here follow
ing his arrest Tuesday night He
was captured at Meridian and Pratt
streets after a short chase by Lieu
tenant Michael Morrissey and pa
trolmen Jones and Bauer after he
is alleged to have held up Fred
Born of II North oxford street,
Standard filling station attendant.
The police drove into the station
as Born was being backed into a
lavatory. The bandit had taken
$13.75 from Born. An unloaded re-
volver was found in ISenbargerS
pocket and the money was recov-
cred.
Isenbarger, police say. confessed
the following holdups here: Stand
ard station on North Meridian
street, Feb. 18, SIS; Standard sta
ton at Twenty-ninth street and
Capitol avenue, Jan. 81, $50: Stand
ard station at Sherman drive and
East Washington street, Jan. 13,
$40; Standard station at Rural
street and Southeastern avenue,
Feb. 13, $40: Feb 8, Standard sta
ton at Sheridan avenue and Wash
ington street. S25; Feb. il; Shell
station, Southeastern and Keystone
avenues, SIT.
He confessed also, police say, to
filling station holdupS at Franklin,
Warsaw, Ft. Wayne and Marion,
Ind, and at Van Vert and Mans
field, o.
Bullet in Shoulder
Farrell Tate, 80, of 4450 Caroline
avenue, who escaped police Tuesday
morning when more than fifty bull
let's were fired at him, was arrested
Tuesday night at the home Of his
cousin, Mrs. Grace Meryicke. of 3843
Broadway. being found hiding be-
meath a bed. He had a bullet wound
in one shoulder, He is held undet
high bond on vagrancy charge fcr
questioning in holdups and in car
theft cases.
Farrell was acquitted of shoot
ing Herman Burgess. 10, of Box
90-J, R. R. No 6. in the left hand
in dark alley Tuesday night when
Arthur Oldham, II, of 4519 Balti-
more avenue, told police he fired
the rifle shot that struck Burgess.
He declared he believed Burgess to
be a holdup man when he saw
Burgess in the alley. Burgess was
seeking an automobile stolen from
hSi father -in-law which police
charge Farrell stole. Oldham was
held on charges of shooting inside
the city. limits.
A lone bandit robbed the Howard
Bradley lunch car at 1893 North
Illinois street, taking $50 from
Travis Hillngsworth, 30, of 3459
North Illinois street, night man.
Groceries valued at 500 were
stolen from the Elmer Applegate
grocery at SOC Laurel street by
burglars Tuesday night.