Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1932 — Page 3

FEB. 23, 1932

$1,500 IS LOOT OF BANDITS IN TWO HOLDUPS Downtown Pharmacy Yields $1,200 to Four Gunmen; Grocery Is Robbed. Robberies committed within a period of less than seven hours Monday night and early today retted loot of approximately 51,500, Including $1,200 taken in a holdup of a downtown pharmacy. Pour bandits obtained the $1,200 at midnight from the Liggett pharmacy, Pennsylvania and Washington streets. Another bandit obtained S3OO when he robbed the Regal grocery, 559 Massachusetts avenue today. The pharmacy robbers had been In the store frequently during the last two weekj, according to John McDaniel, 5233 Burgess avenue, assistant manager. They entered Monday night at closing time after money had been gathered from cash registers and placed in a safe. After ordering sandwiches, one bandit armed with two revolvers, threatened McDaniel. Another, also armed, stood near. The bandits then forced others in the store into the basement and locked them in a kitchen by wedging the door with a piece of wood. Those imprisoned by A. Robert Vestal, 5901 East Washington street, a pharmacist; Mrs. Wayne Eastes, 29 Virginia avenue; Miss Lorine Harmon and Miss Jean Evans, both of 2016 Central avenue, soda clerks, and the husband of Mrs. Eastes, who had called at the store to acco'hipany her home. Quietly, one of the robbers told McDaniel he had “Just three minutes to open that safe door if you want to save your soul.’’ McDaniel complied, and the $1,200 it contained was taken. Only a $2.50 gold piece was overlooked. Whire the robbery was in progress, one of the bandits stood guard over those in the basement. The money seized, all left through a front door. Julius Cohen, 16, of 109 West Ray •treet, a newsboy, saw the bandits

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enter an automobile parked on Pennsylvania street. They drove south, Cohen said. As the gunmen left, McDaniel telephoned police, and those imprisoned in the basement liberated themselves. A Negro bandit robbed Mrs. Eloise Mesalam of S3OO this morning in the Regal store, operated by her husband, James Mesalam. Mrs. Mesalam, alone in the store, had removed the money from a safe when the gunman entered, drew a gun and seized the money bag. Steals S4O and Loaf of Bread *u?F rROIT ’ Feb - 23—A youthful thief was not satisfied with the S4O he took from the cash register of Thomas Diamond’s grocery store here. As he left with the money, the robber placed a loaf of bread under his arm.

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