The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-26
$500 LOOT is
TAKEN IN CRIME
OF WEEKEND
Toll Would Have Been More
If Several Robbery Tries
Had Not Failed.

Weekend crime netted almost
$500 in loot, and the toll would
have mounted higher If several
robbery attempts had been carried
of successfully, police records dis
closed today.
AS he opened doors of a garage
early today. J. j. Logsdon, 905 West
Twenty-ninth street, laundry truck
driver, was robbed by Negro OF
s45 in cash and checks.
Logsdon told police he was pre-
pairing to take his truck out OF the
garage at 92l West Twenty-ninth
street when the Negro slid from
hiding place in an alley and
drew a revolver. The money was
Logsdon's collections Saturday.
Victim of Negro Thugs
Sitting in front of GIG North Sen
ate avenue early today, where, he
told police he was waiting for a
friend, John M. Fisher, SOB East
drive, Woodruff Place, was the VIC
tim Of two Negro thugs, who
dragged him from his car, beat him,
and escaped with S45.
Later police arrested Edward
Jones, 627 Roanoke street, and Fred
Mason, 914 Muskingum street, whom
Fisher identified as the robbers.
Jones had watch taken from
E1icl,ar arcorCi11O IN Y10licp
When Herbert Rumble, 2842 North
Dearborn street, employe Of the
Acme Monon Coal Company, opened
the company's offices this morning,
he found the safe had been blown.
Yeggs took about 500.
Overpowered by Yeggs
Yeggs fed offices of the Charles
Fl. Freebooter Baking Company, $50
East Merrill street, when a charge
of soup" blew open the heavy outer
doors of the safe Saturday night.
The defamation was heard by per-
sons in a nearby barber shop and
they ran to the street to investi-
gate.
The four or five men in the gang
had overpoWered Harry Till, 3449
Carrollton avenue, superintendent,
as he was leaving the building by a
side door. Taking him back inside
the office they ordered him to open
the safe, but he replied he did not
known the combination.
Then they struck him, bound him
to a steam radiator and tied up l..
T. William. 913 Greer street, the
1anitor, beside Till. Behind an in
ner door of the safe lay the COM
pany's receipts, untouched by the
burglars.
Safe Stolen From Store
Police are holding William Roe,
10, and Robert Roe, %, as suspects
in the robbery. Both have extern
sive criminal records, according to
police.
Safe of the B. E. Barnhart
pharmacy, Forty-second and Boul-
evard place, was removed from the
store Sunday night by thieves who
pried open two doors to gain en-
trance. IlC OdlG lao AASO NSOAA
located by police and Barnhart
was unable to estimate amount OF
funds in the strongbox.
A roughly dressed foreigner held
up eight persons in the Dorm
pharmacy, Pennsylvania and Thir-
teenth streets, Sunday night, shot
several times, and escaped with $25.
Other robber victims included:
Standard grocery, 1902 South East
ard si1isi grocery, p sos North Illinois streets.
W. S. Kegley, Sc East Fifty-seventh
street robbery. 81, Sunday.
Coble restaurant 802 West Washington
street, mint machine and 50; police ar.
rested two 16-year-old youths charged
James Marx, 20. of 1881 Brookside ave-
nut. Bryce oil Company filling station at
tendant, 90 West Michigan street, S2l'
Myrtle Martin, purse snatched, $3.50
police arrested Guy Busclagia, 80, on petit
fucker pharmacy, 1901 Madison avenue,
delivery boy held up. $50.
Mrs Genevoeve Sitter. Apt. 8. Richlieu
apartments, North and Massachusetts
avenue. two diamond rings, $500.