The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-20

The bandits had entered
the bank through a cellar
door, apparently with the in
tention Of holding up the first
employe to appear.
There were no witnesses to the
shooting, and only one person in
town now recalls that he heard the
shots. Apparently no one saw the
bandits leave.
State Police theorized that Mr..
Carter resisted when the bandits
held him up, and started to shoot
with .38-caliber automatic pistol.
The bandit also opened fire with a
38-caliber automatic pistol Mr..
Carter shot four times, hitting the
slain bandit once.
Both Shot in Head
Mr.. Carter and the bandit both
were Shot in the head. State police
do not believe any of the other
bandits were wounded. They got
no money, although the time lock
OF the vault opened automatically
at 8 and ths time of the shooting
has been fixed at $40.
When they left the bank. the BAN
dts split up, taking Mr.. Carter's
auto IN addition to their own. They
headed out State Road Al toward
Terre Haute, but changed their
course, because some time later a
farmer saw them three miles and
one-haf east of Bloomingdale.
There, he saw one bandit abandon
the stolen Carter car, getting into
another car which he believed con-
tanned two men. He told State Po-
lice he did not take the license num-
berS.
Three States on Guard
After that, the bandits disap-
peared. Indiana, Illinois and Ohio
police have been warned to be on
the lookout for the men, but there
was nothing but meager descrip-
ton Of the car.
AT one time it was thought the
killers were in woods near Turkey
Run State Park, and police cars
were directed to that area, but that
clew proved groundless.
The bodies of Mr. Carter and the
unidentified bandit were not found
until l.. j. Brown, bank president.
came to work. He discovered the
body of the bandit in front of the
vault and that Of Mr.. Carter inside
the cashiers cage.
No Identification Marks
The only mark of Identification on
the bandit was a package Of paper
matches bearing the name of a st.
Louis sandwich shop His body was
taken TO the H. A. Shelton Funeral
Home in Rockville, where finger
prints are to be taken and forward
ed to the Department of Justice in
Washington.
Shells of exploded cartridges were
strewn about the bank and in the
air was the aerid smell of gun.
powder fumes. Mr.. Brown and his
associates Immediately notified the
state police and by a force of 43
was on duty This group later was
augmented and Capt. Matt Leach
came here to take charge Of the in
vestigation.
The police of all cities in Indiana,
southeastern Illinois and south
western Ohio were informed by
radio and telephone and began a
patrol of all roads and highways.
The chase was hindered somewhat
by a general snowfall.
Bloomingdale is in Parke County,
about so miles west of Indianapolis,
six miles north of Rockville and near
Terre Haute.
No one in Bloomingdale who saw
the body of the bandit was able TO
identify it.
MIR. Zarter was unmarried. He
lived with his father and mother,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Carter.
Because it was showing here
early this morning, no one was on
the streets. This afforded the fugi-
tives a head start.
They were traced by footprints
and tire tracks in the snow.
By United Press
FORT WAYNE, Ind, March 90
Two unmasked bandits held up the
Randall Investment Co. here late
yesterday. held the president and
two employees at the point of gun,
and escaped with more than $500
in cash.