The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-04
BRIDE IS SHOT
AIDING MATE
IN BURGLARY
Girl In Serious Condition,
Wounded by Owner of
Lizton Store.
DRIVEN BY POVERTY
Pair Forced to Crime by
Need, Husband Tells
Police Here.
DRIVEN BY POVERTY

Driven by poverty beyond the law
for a livelihood, q pretty, 20-year-
old bride was wounded seriously
early today, fleeing from a general
store in Lizton in which she and
her husband were surprised at rob-
berry by the owner.
She rode more than four hours
with her husband in a stolen auto
mobile with forty shotgun pellets in
her body before she received med
ical attention. At city hospital, ply
sicians fear tetanus may develop.
The bride is Mrs. Roxie Nc
Creary, whose parents live in
jamestown, and who March 30 mar
ried James r. McCreary, then living
at lot West Tenth street.
Man Also Wounded
McCreary, who admits entering
the store, but who insists his wife is
innocent Of any crime, also was
wounded when Sol Ellis, IS, pro-
prietor, ran from his house across
the street about l a. m. and opened
fire on the couple as they clambered
into the stolen coupe.
At 5 this morning McCreary beat
at the door Of DR.. Joseph L. Storey,
1882 Central avenue, and begged
medical aid for his wife, who, he
said, had been hurt badly in an ac-
cident.
After DR.. Storey treated her at his
office, Bats North Illinois street. he
slipped to a telephone and called
police. Lieutenant Marion Van
Sickle's squad took McCreary into
custody and sent Mrs. McCreary to
the hospital, where she is charged
with vagrancy.
McCreary had a story ready when
police first questioned him, and it
was substantiated by his young wife.
Tries to Shield Wife
Out Of work for many weeks, he
said, they have been forced to live
in the automobile. Early today they
drove into a small lane near Uni
versity Heights to park for the
night, and suddenly some one shot
at them, he told Lieutenant Van
Sickle.
Taken to the scene he described,
McCreary broke down when police
pointed out that no car had been
driven in there during the night.
He confessed the robbery, but said
his wife stayed in the car while he
went into the store, and was shot
while trying to help him into the
machine, after Ellis shout to his
son announced discovery of the rob-
berry attempt.
When he opened his store for
business this morning, Ellis did not
know how true his aim had been,
and when he learned a woman had
been his quarry, his anger melted
into sympathy.
Sorry Woman Is Wounded
L hate that" he said. IT hope she
will get well-but they shoc-a have
stayed at home"
He said when he was aroused this
morning he saw two persons in the
store with flashlights He called to
his son Lyman, Is, only recently out
of hospital after a serious opera
ton, picked up the shotgun, and
ran into the street.
He saw two forms crowding into
the car and from q distance of a
hundred feet took hasty aim and
fired, The son shot twice with a
revolver as the car drove away.
Holding the couple on vagrancy
charges pending investigation and
almost certain reslating, police be-
gan investigation of the stolen car.
1t had been reported missing in
January, was found almost at once,
and never had been reported stolen
again.