Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1955 — Page 2
Dapper Bandit
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turned him over to Indiana authorities and Trigg was released under $10,000 bond when arraigned here. HE JUMPED BOND and fled to Chicago several months ago but was arrested a short time later in the Windy City on burglary charges when he and two white Chicago hoods were stopped in his car and found to possess to guns. Deputy Prosecutor Grant and Lt. Davenport won extradition proceedings in Chicago’s Cook County
Criminal Court.
Howard Harding, prominent Indianapolis underworld figure who was known to have been a distributor for an interstate narcotics ring, was found dead Feb. 18 in a weedy field at 2549 Sangster. He had been shot once through the back of the head. His blood-soaked Cadillac was found parked several
blocks away.
A .44 caliber pistol found in Trigg's car when he was last arrested in Chicago was established as the weapon with which Hard-
ing was killed.
Trigg served four years in the Illinois State Prison for robbery and spent three years in the Tennessee State Prison for grand lar-
ceny.
He was arrested here in connection with a Louisville robbery while he was free under bond on the Medias robbery and detectives here believe he was Harding’s link with Chicago, his chief source of
dope.
told the Jury that Trigg and another man, identified as Charles Price Webb and also of Chicago, held the place up about 7:45 a.m.
Oct. 10, 1953.
Webb held a gun on Theodore Medias and Willie Givens and Phillip Klenn, employees, as Trigg took William Medias to the basement and/ bound him, hand and
foot with wire.
Trigg then returned to the main floor, donned work gloves and looted the vault of about in cash and $5,000 in
Jewelry.
The holdup men forced the men to lay face-down on the floor and told them their “goose will be cooked’* if they yelled, then left. AH the men positively identified Trigg as one of the holdup men and identified Webb from a photograph. Webb is being held by Chicago police in connection with a murder committed during a rob-
bery.
THE FINAL CHAPTER in the Trigg story was written only after a long strugle by local authorities which took the case to the Supreme Court of Tennessee, through Illinois courts and to the Indiana Supreme Court. Following the holdup, Lt. Davenport and Sgt. Jones started their investigation with only a description of the bandits and the knowledge they were not local men. A hunch that they were part of a ruthless Chicago gang which had plagued Indianapolis super markets the year before took the crack detective team to the Windy City. In two days the officers had established the identity of Trigg and Webb. Trigg had gone on a spending spree when he got back to Chicago after the “job" and had left a trail. He bought $134 worth of new clothes, paid $1,000 down on a late-model sedan and paid up his hotel bill, plus paying two weeks in advance. Trigg had left Chicago but Lt. Davenport and Sgt. Jones traced him to his mother s home at Memphis, Tenn., where he was arrested Nov. 3. The Tennessee Supreme Court
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rate of speed. The boy dashed across the road and was struck about four feet off the pavement on the east side. Willie’s body was hurled into the air and smashed the right side of the car’s windshield then thrown *9 feet before landing in high weeds on the side of the road.
nions said the car screeched 270 feel past the point of impact, then stopped in the middle of the road. Toliver and the three men got out, looked back at the mangled body of the victim, and fled on foot to the home of Cantrell, not
far away.
TOLIVER SAID the accelerator stuck as he came off the hill at about 60 miles per hour. His brakes refused to respond when he pumped them after seeing the boy started across the road, he said. He said he pulled his emergency brake on and estimated the car was traveling “no more than 30 miles an hour” when it struck Dowdell. “I know one thing,” Toliver* sobbed, *T wasn’t trying to hit any one. I tried to miss him,
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Woodard, Newport News, Va., treasurer; E. J. LaBranche, Jr., New Orleans, historian; R.JL Wimberly, Raleigh, N. C., chaplain; William Goode, Pittsburgh, ser-geant-at-arms, and S. Edward Gilbert, St. Louis, director of public
relations.
In the opening session, Hairston called for The establishment of an Institute of Store Operation in cooperation with the College of Pharmacy, Howard University. The primary object of such an institute would be to conduct a continuous and permanent study of the factors related to the success and failure of drug stores operated by NPA members as well as others, Hairston said. He also called for establishment of machinery through which members of the association might purchase items jointly In large quantities instead of individually in small quantities. The pharmacists held four general sessions, one Tuesday, two Wednesday on one Thursday. The general sessions featured talks by pharmacists and persons in related fields. The convention will be held in St. Louis next year. THE NEWLY-ELECTED PRESIDENT is widely recognized as one of the most outstanding pharmacists of Indianapolis, Indiana and the Mid-West. After finishing courses in a pharmaceutical college, he was appointed to the staff of the drug department at Methodist hospital where he advanced to a top position as a prescription specialist. So skilled and expert was he that many physicians in the city and eventually throughout the country and many parts of the world, demanded his personal attention in the filling of their pre-
scriptions.
He left the hospital about six years ago to open his own drag store at 27th and Northwestern and because of a phenomenal and steady growth of business he moved last year into his present spacious
The youngster died instantly.
Mrs. Dowdell and her compa-* quarters at 27th and Northwestern
‘ as a Walgreen agency.
The present store is universally described as one of the most modern, tastefully appointed, wellstocked departmental drug store
to be found anywhere.
His success in operating and merchandising is eagerly recog nized by the people of the entire city and stamps Mr. Clark as one of the leading businessmen of the
city and an invaluable asset.
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WHO WOULDN'T SMILE HAPPILY?: Jim Birr (right) ond George Heiny, local business men took time out from important duties to mingle with the youngsters at The Recorder's annual Newsies picnic last
Monday. Children in the picture enjoying lunch with their adult friends, are, left to right, Milton Ray, Mitchell Ledford, Carolyn McElwayne, Debra Jane Clark, and Floyd Wooten.
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too.” John G. Llnehan, Sheriff’s investigator, said the tracks at the scene indicated the car went off the road 40 yards before it struck the boy. He said the car made tracks four feet off the side of the road at the point of impact. PROSECUTOR TINDER said he would ask maximum prison terms for both drivers. Dowdell was buried Satugday afternoon in New Crown Cemetery following services in the Craig Funeral Home. Bom in Opelika, Ala., he lived here four years and was a fourth grade pupil at the Clermont grade school. Besides the mother, he is survived by four brothers, Robert L. t Allester, David L., and David Ray Dowdell, and two sisters, Mrs. Arreatha Bell and Carie Ethel Dowdell.
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Church Elects New Officers
The control of the 16th Street Baptist Church, its business and spiritual affairs has been returned to the members and duly elected
officers.
In the recent Court action, it was recognized that Rev. Albert Batts has been dismissed as pastor and his salary paid in full. Officers, trustees and a pulpit committee were chosen at a church meeting Aug. 3. Deacons selected were: Chester Gardner, chairman; Hilrod Reed, William Payne, Leslie Wilson, Calvin Harris, Leslie Caldwell, Sam Williams, John O’Neal and Alex
Taylor.
Trustees are: Cleveland Oliver, chairman; Russell Butler, James Townsend, Joe Henderson, John L. Henry, Knox Harris and Clinton Poindexter. Mrs. Grace Mabry was elected church clerk and Mrs. Martha Gardner, the financial
secretary.
Members of the pulpit committee selected were Messrs. Heed, Caldwell and Gardner, Sr. The law suits resulting from the recent fight to oust the pastor were all dropped by the contending parties. Henry J. Richardson and Lola Allen represented many of the members and Frank R. Beckwith and E. C. Boswell represented the former pastor and those
supporting him.
Ludlow's Market To Change Site Ludlow’s Market, located at 225 N. Illinois for the past four years, is being forced to move to larger quarters at 54 W. New York next
week.
Leon Ludlow, operator of the popular market and an able business man with 20 years’ experi
store will open Aug. 17 with all the facilities and fine appointments of the truly modern food
market.
The change is made necessary. he declared, because of the great Increase in business, a gratifying result of his sound gild intelligent merchandising policy 'under which he oper-
ates.
The new store has much larger floor space which permits a much better and more convenient display of the full variety of foods offered to thrifty the housewives. ,
Mr. Ludlow, before opening his Richardson. present market, was a partner in
the operation of the former Uhl’s Market, a popular food retail out-
let at 29 S. Illinois
All equipment in the 54 West New York store will be up-to-thej minute in style and design, fashioned to offer effective and clear display and at the same time, conserve foods and protect their
freshness and quality. MEANWHILE, the usual moneysaving bargains always found at Ludlow’s will be offered at the present store this weekend with the traditional courteous service that has made this market notable. The place will be closed Monday and Tuesday next weeek when arrangements will be completed for transfer to the location on New York street. Announcement of a formal opening will appear on Page 8 of The Recorder next week.
He was unable to place the youth in the new car line but after much effort found a place in used cars, cars. “I haven’t had any trouble placing white boys,” Hanika stated. “The dealers are glad to get them.” The high school shop-trained mechanics work several years as apprentices and if they show outstanding ability are sent to special automotive schools like the General Motors Institute of Technology. MR. HANIKA was high in his praise for the auto shop at Attucks high school, which is directed by George Roddy. “They turn out some darned good mechanics up there,” he stat-
ed.
The automotive maintenance business offers an attractive future and excellent pay. Various classes of mechanics make a minimum of around two dollars per hour and advance to a maximum of about three dollar an hour. Specialists in the various automotive fields draw the biggest pay checks. There is a desperate need for specialists in automatic transmissions, power steering and power brakes and the electronic accessories used in today’s automobile. Hanika feels that the color line in the employment of mechanics will gradually fade. He suggested that Negro mechan-
ics first make application for jobs in used cars and gain the good will of fellow white mechanics “and soon they’ll find themselves throughout the industry here.” Mrs. Lucy Watkins Services for Mrs. Lucy Watkins, 75, 2345 Northwestern, who died July 28 in General hospital were held at the Stuart Mortuary Aug. 1, with burial in Crown Hill. Born in Frankfort, Ky., she lived here 74 years and was a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church. She is survived oy a daughter, Mrs. Katie Mae Watkins and a stepson. Walker Watkins, both of
Indianapolis.
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