The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-12


has been started. Simon said state
reformatory photos of Scott have
been identified. Scott was one of
three prisoners who escaped re-.
Gently from the reformatory,
Simon said.
Orders to Police Chief Jerry Kin
ney to learn whether patrolman
William Gezas betrayed cowardice
or inefhciency in pursuit of gun
man that led to fatal shooting of
city fireman Henry Millikan Sat-
urday were Issued today by Charles
Myers, safety board president.
Millikan, 81, of SIS South Alabama
street, died at a. m. today in city
hospital, from peritonitis in a bullet
wound in the abdomen. He was shot
when he tackled the gunman at
Louisiana and East streets after
Gezas had pursued the man several
minutes.
Stories indicating that several
times Gezas could have shot the
fugitive, and conf1ictionS in his re-.
port to police headquarters obviously
reached city hall. Captain Ed Helm
and Lieutenant Frank Reilly spent
most of the morning in the neigh
horhood of the shooting, seeking
witnesses to the chase and shooting.
One version Of GezaS' perform
ance related that when the bandit
shot Millikan the policeman dived
into an automobile and lay there
with only his feet protruding. Wit
nesses said the bandit walked, not
ran, to $50 Virginia avenue, where
he Communicated an auto and
escaped.
Gezas, who is As, was named to
the police force in July, 1915.
The policeman, in his initial re-
port at headquarters, said he came
on the bandit holding UP a filling
station attendant, and that the gun
man escaped after running gun
battle, during which Gezas could not
get an open shot at him.
EIude Police Near Southport
The filing station attendant said
the first he knew he had been
robbed was when Gezas, after the
chase, returned and told him about
it. One witness said at one time
the policeman was not more than
six feet behind the fleeing man.
The bandit engaged traffic
policeman in a gun battle that
ended when a motoriSt whose car
the policeman impressed into the
chase refused to continue under
gunf1re. The gunman eluded police
and sheriff's posses near Southport.
Unofficially at city hall today the
word went round that because OF
recent melees with bandits in which
police had shown lack >of training
there might be inaugurated in the
near future a school for policemen,
along lines of instruction given
police in New York, Chicago and
other larger cities.
Joined Force in 1921
Millikan was married, but had no
children. He was appointed to the
force in 1921.
The fireman was the fourth band
TRY fatality, and the sixth person
wounded by hoodlumS in the city
in thirty days.
Lewis Davidson, grocer, was slain
by an unseen bandit near his gro
Gerry, at 124 East Twenty third |
street, early in December, and sew
eral days later M. F. Bell, grocer,
was shot fatally by two Negro |
bandits.
Wide Hunt for Killer
The night of Jan. 8, Carl W.
Hickman, detective sergeant, was
slain when he and another police |
man engaged two Negroes in a gun
battle. Floyd Board, one of the Ne
groeS, was captured, but his COM
panioay Richard Perkins, alias Cobb,
is at large.
Early Wednesday, Ferdinand |
Finchurl, patrolman, was wounded !
critically, and Owen Tevelin, patrol |
man, was shot in the hip when three |
robber suspects they were searching |
put up a battle.
Police in all cities in southern !
Indiana and Kentucky have been |
given descriptions of the man who |
killed Millikan.