The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
CHAIN STORES PRESIDENT
SHOT DOWN BY ROBBER;;
Near DEATH IN HOSPITAL
Lafayette Jackson. Head of
Standard Grocery Co.,
Is Bullet Victim.
SLEUTH ALSO WOUNDED
Detective Charles Bauer Is
Shotgun Target When
He BUSHES to Aid.

ne bushes 10 Alus
Bandit and police guns
blazed in bloody battle this
morning, leaving at least two
men wounded in an attempted
holdup of the Standard Gro
Gerry Company headquarters
store, at 419 East Washing
ton street.
Lafayette A. Jackson, head of the
Standard chain stores, was wounded
critically in the head and abdomen
when he drew a gun against one OF
two bandits who entered the store
Detective Charles Bauer was
wounded in the head and body by a
charge from a shotgun in hands of
the other bandit as the pair fed the
store into Bauer's gunf1re.
The bandits last were seen in this
eastern part of the city by two men
who followed their car.
Lead ROutS CROWDS
Hearing Bauer's battle with tbs
fugitives, Detectives Allan Kelly
and Ed Deeter, cruising in an auto
block away, wheeled about to take
up the fight as their comrade stag
gered against building.
Scores of passersby in the rear
east side business district, took to
shelter as lead whistled through
East Washington street.
Both bandits in the store were
believed wounded. Jackson fired
four times, and one of the employees
said blood trickled from one mans
head as he ran out. The man with
the shotgun was shot by Kelly or
Deeter. they believe. Each fired
three times at close range.
Pair Walked Into Store
During a lull in Woodworking, and
half an hour before an armored car
was to take money from the store
to a bank, the bandit pair walked
into the store.
Cup with your hands, damn you.
and keep quiet" commanded the
bandit with the pistol, leveling it
at Jackson, who sat at his desk be-
hind a heavy screen separating the
Office from the store.
Behind Jackson sat j. B. HofT-
man, 410 South Arlington avenue.
auditor, and nearby stood Ralph
Ayres, 218 South Hadley street. d
clerk. Ed Wiese, 1884 North Ilii-
nois street, Jackson'S son-in-laW,
walked into the store from a rear
room.
AS the gunman who covered him
ordered him to open the safe, Jack
son reached for his gun. Both fired,
Jackson pulling the trigger four
times. A bullet struck him in the
head, and he reeled into a wash
room, where he dabbed water on
the wound as the bandit fired again,
shooting him in the abdomen.
Wiese, unseen by the second BAN
dit, fired a tear gas shell at him,
and as it burst both gunner fed.
Hit in Neck, He Says
Bauer was walking near the store
when the shots were fired. At city
hospital he said
st opened the door and saw a
man standing there holding a shot
gun.
Il fired point blank and hit him
in the neck. He staggered and
blood showed on his shirt after 1
shot. He turned and shot me with
his shotgun. That's all I can re-
member"
Major Herbert Fletcher, acting
police chief, commended Bauer for
his bravery.
An emergency squad took Jack
son to st. Vincent's hospital, where
physicians said his condition was
critical. He lives at 1858 North ILL
nois street.
Bauer lives at 545 Rrexel avenue.
He is SO, and was appointed to the
police force as patrolman in 1927.
Another Store Robbed
Two hours after the East Wash
ington street robbery, a second
Standard grocery, at 217 Bicking
street, was held up by a Negro, who
fled with SIT. When the Negro
raced from the store, Russell
Wright, 217 Bicking street, proprie-
tor, yelled to Ralph Shideler, 10, e57
South Delaware street, a half block
distant. to stop the thief.
He tackled the Negro, who had
pocketed his gun, but the Negro
wrenched free before Wright could
reach the scene Of the scuffle.
Jackson's rise and the expansion
Of his grocery chain to approx
nlately $50 stores in indianapolis
and immediate vicinity has fur
nished one of the most colorfuI
chapters in the city's business an
nails.
Business Ability Marvellous
Despite the bewildering details
involved in supplying, managing and
handling receipts Of his chain, Jack
son has kept a finger on every as
pect of the business.
Competitors and statesmen have
marveled at the intimate knowledge
he maintained Of every department !.
Of his business without the aid of
large Office corps, and with none
of the elaborate filing systems usu-
ally required by such an under
taking.
It was JackSon's Injunction suit
against state officials that DELAYED
for two years and half the admin
istration Of the chain store license
act. passed BY tbs 1879 lss,slasugab