Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 210, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1935 — Page 5

NOV. 11, 1935

KELLER SEIZED BY ‘VICTIM 1 IN STORE HOLDUP Much-Wanted Indianapolis Man Trapped Trying to Rob Shopkeeper. Richard Keller. 29. Indianapolis, was captured yesterday in St. Paul. Minn., by a storekeeper whom he was attempting to rob, according to word received today by Indianapolis police. K n !lcr is wanted in Cincinnati in connection with the murder Nov. 11, 1932, of Adolph G. Woest, a laundry owner, who was shot and killed in his office in a holdup. Jacob Lange, Indianapolis salesman, who was waiting to interview Mr. Woest, was wounded. Keller was arrested by St. Paul police after he was overpowered by Ludovico Nardi, the storekeeper he tried to hold up. “He offered me SIOO to let him go, but I wouldn't do it,” Nardi told police. Boasting a long and varied penal and police history, Keller was one of the first to be arrested in the roundup of suspects in the murder of Sergt. Lester Jones in a holdup here. The charges were dismissed, however, as were charges filed against him in the same year in a Shelbyville kidnaping case. Keller now is under Federal indictment with Edward (Foggy > Dean, on trial now' in Criminal Court for the Jones murder. Keller and Dean were indicted for alleged theft of an automobile taken from Indianapolis to Louisville. His criminal career started when he was 11 and was committed to White's Institute for petit larceny. His record since has been liberally dotted by arrests and convictions. He served several sentences, but escaped conviction or judgment W'as suspended in a number of arrests.

CLASS PLAY SELECTED BY MANUAL SENIORS “Growing: Fains” to Be Given in School Dec. j and 6. “Growing Pains” has been selected by the January senior class at Manual Training High School as (heir class play. It is to be given in the school auditorium Dec. 5 and 6 James Milam and Maxine Merrick are to play the leads. Others in the east are Myrtle Roudebush, Jack Tice, Ruth Messersmith, Robert Hall. Mildred Walther, Lavetta Adamson. Vernie Warrenburg. Ida Mai Wilson. Hilda Roth, Rosemary Morris, Marjorie Cronin, Grace Kattau, Okie Highlower. Robert Specker and Russell Burger. Arius Court to Meet Arius Court 5, Ben Hur Life Association is to hold a banquet and initiation Tuesday night in Castle Hall Building, 230 E. Ohio-st.

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BEGIN HERE TODAY. J**n D';nn ..ecrefary 'o Donald Mon'atu* lawyer, delays her answer when Robbv Wallace automobile salesman, asks her to marry him. A' the Golden Fea'her night club she tiireu Sandy Harkins, whose business connection is vague Sandv introduces Bobbv and Jean to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis and Bobby arranges to sell some bonds i for lowis. He -ells them to Donald Montague Lewi' buys a car. Larry Glenr, federal a gen* Is trying to locate Wing" Lewis, bank robbery. | He learns about the bond transaction I and questions Bobby. The bonds were | stolen Larry behews the car Lewis j bought, was armored. Bobby undertakes ; to find out. Jean goes te her home town for a vacation Sandv comes to see her and she agrees to marry him. Bobbv finds an old brickyard a-d belie' "s i l- where the armored cars are made. Larry gets proof 'hat Lewis and Sandv both have criminal records. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN ( Continued) In the ordered quiet of the little bank the crash of the automatic was like the explosion of a 10-inch shell. Mr. Hobart spun half around and gently sank to the floor, oblivious to guns, tear gas and everything else. A stenographer, who was clicking a type writer a dozen feet away, gave a frightened little scream and looked up with a face as white as milk, her hands frozen to her typewriter. A young man who stood beside the second wicket gave a nervous start and stared out through the grille, ignorant of the fact that his mouth was open wide enough to receive a baseball. The farmer who had just cashed a check backed up against the wall, his face pasty under its tan, his hands automatically beginning to go up. Mr. Dunn, president of the bank, opened the door to his private office and came into the lobby—to find a dapper little man confronting him with a vicious-looking submachine gun. Mr. Dunn backed, against the wall, his hands in the air. A moment later the stenographer and the farmer joined him there, while thp little man with the gun smiled evilly and gently swung his gun back and forth so that its ugly muzzle pointed at one after another in turn. The red-haired man had gone behind the grille. He cast a contemptuous glance into Mr. Hobart's cage, saw Mr. Hobart lying motionless in a pool of blood, and motioned with his automatic for the young clerk to open the safe. The clerk, not liking the carefree way in which the man waved the gun around—it looked, to his startled eyes, as big as a cannon—obeyed, trembling so hard that his fingers could hardly twirl the knob. “Step on it,” said the red-haired man harshly. “I haven't got all day.” He grinned, a wintry, sleety grin that did not extend to those pale eyes, and added, “I got an engagement down the road that I'm especially anxious not to miss. The fumbling clerk swung the door open. So far everything had gone off on schedule. The cashier had been shot down before he could touch off the tear gas. The others were lined up against the wall, helpless. The clerk was obediently stuffing

currency and securities into an empty flour sack that the redhaired man had tossed to him. The athletic young man they called Oklahoma was out in front, cow-, ing chance passers-by with a submachine gun. The automobile was waiting, its motor humming silently. a a a BUT there was one thing the gangsters had overlooked. Across the street and half a block down there was a four-story brick building; and what the gangsters did not know was that the fourth floor of this building had been given over to the American Legion for club rooms, and that Buddy McGinnis, a war veteran whose right leg was under the ground somewhere near Montfaucon, had chosen this morning to be up there performing his functions as adjutant of the post. Everything would have been all right if Buddy McGinnis had not happened to feel the need of fresh air just at the moment that the bandits’ car had driven up. For this reason, he was lounging in a chair by an open window when the holdup men went into the bank; and in the course of 20 seconds or so he chanced to glance toward the bank and see a man standing on the steps with a sub-machine gun in his hands. Buddy took a long, unbelieving look; then he nodded his head once, i slowly, grimly, and stumped across ; the room to a glass case behind which a dozen Springfield rifles stood in a long rack. He seized one of these guns, stumped to a small closet, and got out a clip of cartridges. Humming softly, he slid the cartridges into the gun, stumped back jto the window, knelt down—this | took a little while, as it was hard jto manipulate the artificial leg properly—and rested his gun on the ! sill.

Buddy had not been the best shot in his company, or the second-best either, and it was years since he had fired a gun; but he took careful aim, waited until the blue silk necktie of the man with the machine gun rested just on top of his front sight, and then squeezed the trigger, Oklahoma spun partly around, just as Mr. Hobart had done. His right hand let go of the gun and reached out for support, coming to rest on the plate glass window of the bank. For a few seconds he was poised there, swaying slightly, a pained and incomprehending look on his face. Buddy McGinnis watched and waited for him to fall. But he did not fall. Buddy’s aim had not been quite good enough—which made all the difference in the world. The bullet had punctured Oklahoma’s shoulder without touching a bone! and once the first shock of its impact was past he was able to stand unaided, his feet far apart and his knees bent, lift his weapon with both hands and spray a stream of bullets at the window where Buddy McGinnis was kneeling. McGinnis had time for one more

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shot as he saw the machine gun 1 being raised. It spattered against ! the wall of the bank; then the war ; veteran ducked out of sight, while 20 bullets went zipping through the open window, kicking up little splinters from the sill and knocking plaster down from the ceiling. And then the town's one policeman, hearing this uproar, came running down the street, tugging at his revolver as he ran. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT THE clatter of gunfire in the street jarred sharply on the ears of the persons inside the bank. To the victims, standing helplessly by the wall with upraised hands, it brought a sudden stab of hope; to the gunmen it sounded the imperative need for hurfK'. The red-haired man prodded the back of the trembling clerk with his automatic. “Come on, dopey!” he snarled. “Get goin’ or I’ll plug you. Hurry!” They had finished with the safe and the cage in which Mr. Hobart lay in a grotesque sprawl on the floor; now they were in the other cage, and the clerk was taking bills from the cash drawer there weren’t many, but his red-haired man believed in being thorough—and stuffed them into the flour sack. At last it was finished. The clerk turned to face the bandit. The bandit coolly took the sack with one hand, swung the gun against the clerk's left temple with a force that knocked him senseless, and ran out into the lobby. “Come on, wingy,” he yelled. “We got to step on it!” He opened the door and came out on the steps just as the village policeman crossed the street 50 yards away. The policeman was running \ —and puffing heavily, for he was a | stout, middle-aged chap, unused to ; heavy exercise—and he was raising his revolver.

On the steps stood the sandy- j haired chap they called Oklahoma, j He was swaying slightly, and his j face was pale beneath its tan, and j blood had trickled down his body, i beneath his clothes, and made his right foot feel sickeningly wet and warm; and he held his sub-machine gun at his waist and peered grimly up at the window from which Buddy McGinnis had shot him. He did not see the approaching policeman, but the red-haired man did; and -he stood there, his right arm extended, and fired three shots. After each shot the kick of the heavy automatic jerked hjs hand in the air, and he brought it down with what seemed to be great deliberation and fired r.gain. The policeman seemed to stumble as he came up over the curb, and his gun flew out of his hand and slid along the sidewalk for five yards, its metal grating on the cement. The policeman lay there face down, half on the sidewalk and half in the street, and did not move. The third gunman backed out of the bank, shouting through the door some parting threat to the persons inside, who stood there with their hands up. pasty-faced, seemingly paralyzed. (To Be Continued-.

STATE WOMEN LAWYERS WILL HOLD BANOUET Atty. Gen. Philip Lutz Jr. Will Be Speaker Saturday Night. Attv. Gen. Philip Lutz Jr. is to be the principal speaker at the Indiana Association of Women Lawyers’ banquet Saturday night in the Columbia Club. Committee appointments were announced today by Miss Jessie Levy, president of the organization. EnI tertainment committee members are Mrs. Elizabeth Ramier, chairman, Miss Jessie Gremelspacher. Mrs. Florence K. Thacker, Miss Mildred Galagher and Miss Dorothy Simon. Miss Bess Robbins is admissions committee chairman, assisted by Mrs. Chaiune McGuire. Miss Telia Haines, Mrs. Clarence R. Martin ; and Miss Alberta Smith. House committeemen are Miss j Merzie G. George, chairman, Miss Genevieve Brown and Miss Jessie : Van Arsdale. Miss Helen Stockton is in charge of publicity. Legion Ex-Chief to Speak Times Special | GREENWOOD, Ind„ Nov. 11. Humphrey C. Harrington, Marion County deputy prosecutor and former commander of Robert Kennington Post 34, Indianapolis, is to i speak at an American Legion | Armistice Day banquet here toi night.

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