The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-09
GRILL BLOND IN
POLICE SHOOTING
Two Suspects in N. Side
Gun Battle Hunted
Near RushviIIe
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cred with blood. 1t was stolen from
a Shelbyville man Saturday night.
The blond is Mrs. Grace Mae
NoWling, who was arrested yester-
day morning after her presence at
the scene of the shooting was estab-
lished through an auto license, and
since then has told police some de-
tails of the outlaw lives of the
men.
Meantime Detective Orville Quin-
cite, who was shot five times by the
gunner when he attempted to ar
rest them for questioning in the
Hazel Dell apartments, 12th-st and
Park-av, remained in serious con-
dition in City Hospital.
Sought in Anderson Killing
Detective Russell Chatham, who
was in the apartment battle but
escaped with only superficial toe
wound, was regarded as out of
danger.
Both city and state police believe
that one of the two men shot and
killed Patrolman Frank M. Levy in
Anderson, Ind, Nov. "a when the
officer approached a parked car
in the residential section to investi-
gate it's occupants.
1t was in connection with this
case that Detectives Quinette and
Chatham went to the Indianapolis
apartment house Saturday and i'm
mediately were embroiled in a gun
battle that is supposed to have
wounded at least one of the fugi-
tives.
The car Patrolman Levy sought
to investigate when he lost his life
was found next day at Newcastle,
and another was reported stolen at
Anderson the night of the shooting.
In this car, it's owner told police at
the time, were some insurance poll
cies.
Find Insurance Policies
Those policies were found by the
detectives in the apartment the two
fugitives occupied. Mrs NoWling,
however. denied that she knew any,
thing of the Anderson Staying, al
though it is known that blond was
sitting in the parked car with the
gunman at the time of the murder.
Meanwhile at Anderson, Robert
Mace, grocer who was held up by two
gunner Thanksgiving night and
robbed of $4,000, of which $1,000 was
cash, identified pictures of Joseph
and Pierce as the men who robbed
him.
Hair Tonic" Bandits
Pierce and Joseph were known in
indianapolis five years ago as the
hair tonic" bandits. They had
weaknesses for all manner of barber
shop aromas and left as clews, in
an amazing series of crimes of vio-
lence, the pungent odor of hair
dressing fluids.
They staged the Checker Cab Co.
money truck robbery Feb. Is, 1880;
the Yellow Cab Co. pay roll robbery,
March IL, 1880, and the Freebooter
Baking Co. robbery, March 7, the
same year.
They were arrested after also
holding up the Donaldson Omar
Bakery Co. in Columbus, O., when
they held nine persons at bay and
escaped two police cars in spirited
chase through a cemetery.
Trapped at Statehouse
All their money had been spent
and they had gone to the office of
the Secretary of State to get a le-
ultimate Ohio bill of sale for a car
transferred to Indiana. They
wanted to sell the car.
Some one got suspicious and they
were arrested for questioning, which
brought ready admission of the
crimes. They both had criminal
records at the time.
On Oct. 4 Pierce and Joseph and
another prisoner walked through
the gates of the Indiana State Farm,
where they were serving sentences,
and disappeared.
Prison officials say their records
had. been exemplary or that they
never would have been in a posi-
ton to make such an easy escape.