Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 312, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1923 — Page 7

FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1923

THESE PEDESTRIANS 1 TAKE NO CHANCES ON BEING HELD UP Hunt for 'Bandits’ Leads to Explanation—All’s Well That Ends Well! Two men today told how they were almost held up by "armed" bandits at South St., near Delaware St., at 10 p. m .Thursday. Elwln Alexander, 22, of 2232 N. Pennsylvania St., saw a man approaching him. Alexander’s hands were in his coat pocket.. The other man also had his hands in his coat pocket. “Put ’em up.” ordered the stranger. ‘‘Never mind, I’ve got you,” bluffed Alexander. He started to leave. “Wait a minute,” called the stranger. “Don’t run or I’ll shoot.” “Go ahead and shoot,” answered Alexander as he increased his speed in the direction of a gasoline filling station, where ne telephoned the police. Sergeant Wilkerson and Detectives Stump and Samuels went to the scene and heard Alexander’s story. One block west they found Clinton Puckett, 19, of 22 E. Henry St., surrounded by four men “whom he was I telling how a man had just tried to hold him up by pointing a revolver at him frpm his coat pocket. The men were just joining Puckett in the search for the bandit when the emergency squad arrived.

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Alexander Identified Puckett as the man who attempted to “hold him” up. Puckett pointed to Alexander and

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said he was the man who attempted to “hold him” up. Neither man had a gun. The two men had mistaken each other for real hold-up men.

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