Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1952 — Page 2

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Captured Trying to Save ‘3 Bucks

«Bank Robber. Willie (The Actor)

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Bank Robber ‘Slick Willie’ Sutton

By United Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 19—Captured §

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— - TUESDAY, FEB. 19, 1952 Red Skelton Grabs OffIU Bidding

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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 19-— Sen. ment of television. L By United Press jury/Estes Kefauver, Tennessee's| Miss Nina Bara of Hollywood, NEW YORK, Feb, 19—Indiana was named “Miss Emmy of 1952" University Library had repre-

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Sutton, No. 1 pinup boy on Post g# lock in the Lewie Thomas man- awarded a special achievement hy the <Los Angeles radio-TV sentatives bidding on the Barrett Office bulletin boards, faced ques--— # [slaughter trial and was “dis- gward for “arousing the con- editors. collection of Lincoln letters and charged. science of the American people to memorabilia which went on the

tioning by FBI . agents today about. the $1.5 million Brinks stickup at Boston~in 1950. Sutton’s arrest yesterday on

a Brooklyn street by two alert patrolmen ended one of the nation's biggest manhunts. He had been sought since he escaped a Philadelphia prison in 1947, The slender, neatly dressed bandit was identified positively last night by officials of a Manhattan Bank branch on Long l1sland as a robber <=who took £34,000 on Mar. 9, 1950. i But “Slick Willie” Sutton de-* nied he was one of themen wearing Halloween masks and sail- §& ors' peajackets who staged the § Brinks robbery. > He protested that he was & always accused of masterminding & = hank ~ robberies throughout the |

country, A heen | Hving- quietiy- rooklyn- three :

blocks from a police station the past two years,

Police "Skeptical

FBI agents and policé officials refused to take him at his word, oh however, as methods used in the § 5 ; oR Boston robbery resembled those employed by ‘Sutton in his 34vear career as a bank bandit. Suttonswas known to police as “The Actor” because he often

posed as a Western Unlon mes- \jonachan was so overjoyed at senger, a fireman, a laborer, or ain, feat accomplished by his papoliceman in. “casing” banks he {.,imen that he promoted the two intended to rob. And authori-ngen to first-grade detective, raisties investigating the Brinks ped their salary $1000 a year. . up agreed the thieves had mapped pg; pecayse their arrest was ; their strategy to the most minute oat "\ine of duty, Officers Mc- att © it U n man detail. [Clellan and Shea were not eligible > Regarded by police as the. 4, §25000 reward offered for A city policeman narrowly greatest escape artist of all time, Sutton's capture. escaped death early today when Sutton was handcuffed to two po-/ "myo elusive Sutton's capture he slugged it out with a would-be licemen while he was being taken oo attributed to his love for burglar who shot at him in a

from Manhattan to Long Island, g,., yn «1 know it better than South Side alley.

where he was locked up overnight | Patroimen Robert Wade and Irvin Wilkerson were patroling

{any part of the country”—and his their district shortly after 3 a. m,

to await arraignment on bank robbery charges. : + miserly ‘nature. Although “Slick Willie” had re- Trying to Save $3 when they saw a man run 4cross ceived top billing wherever pho-| He admitted he had been trying virginia Ave. and into the alley tographs of “wanted” criminalsits save $3 by lugging the defec-|ajongside the State Auto License None posted. Re wai Playing a tive battery of his sutomobie to Branch, 845 Virginia Ave. straight role yesterday when -'a nearby garage rather than pay| said, “We trolmen Joseph J. MtClellan and|the fee for having it hauled in. i ah SR, ns Donald P. Shea recognized him g.,p.perg found $7773 in worn the parked cars behind the buildfro 2 picture in thelr police, 3 yn a hidden pocket in Sut- ing. Wade started up the alley, Ta pazine. |ton’s clothes and $2000 in a brief and I went around the other side be ag attempting to remove a/,44 ‘hidden in his dingy, $6-a-lof the building to try and ‘flush’ Hy a the apt ap. Week room, but Willie the actor him.” — bj Was a modern Midas. | ‘From that time on, Officer

proached him. When they asked - “ He pressed his own clothing, in- Wade said things went like this: his name, he replied “Charles {or walked oe ihe alley. along:

” ‘cluding six cheaply made suits, Coreen 3 produced 3 blll of} side the building. About three car

sale and auto owner's license and shined his own shoes. issued to him under that alias. | Police found a variety of books lengths from the rear I found PATROLMAN ROBERT | Officers McClellan and Shea in his bleak room, including “The!myself face-to-face with the man

took him to a police station where Basic Writings of Sigmund before we even knew each other WADE—Burned by bullet. he admitted his identity. Freud,” “Peace of Soul” by Ful- was there. He had a gun in his quarters for help, and nine po“1 guess you've got me,” he tonlJ. Sheen: “A Business of Your hand pointed at me. {licemen responded. said. ’ Own: “Youth Can Change the| “I grabbed it, and he fired. A’short timé later, a service Police Commissioner George P. World” by Father James Kelher, That's when I got my hand station attendant at Kentucky RE ° ge land “How to Treat Yourself for burned. Then he either hit or and Tibbs Aves. reported three

"YOU GOT ME"—That's what Willie (The Actor) Sutton told Brooklyn police who picked him up. Willie, center, was arrested by Patrolmen Joseph McCellan, right, and Donald Shea, rear, when his automobile stalled. The detective at the left is Louis Weiner. ;

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ARERR RARER RAIN ERA 1) |pushed me. He snapped the gun men in a station wagon bearing st * at - me again. It must have Hancock County plates had oman} ot | . |Jammed. stopped for gas, then sped away. + Former J.P. Fined | “Before I could-get my gun out,| Officer Wade was {reated at

{he ran back and got in a waiting General Hospital for burns, then {station wagon with two other released. | men, They went south.” Police are keeping a close check Officer Wilkerson said before on all License Bureau Branches could get to Patrolman Wade's after a recent wave of burglaries, | aid, police cars were swarming in including a safe cracking one from “all directions.” He said week ago for more than $500 at

For Embezzlement

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Feb. 19 (UP)—Thomas W. Morley, 48, a| former justice of the peace who ly o pleaded guilty to embezzling | $2174 while in office, today paid a $100 fine and costs.

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t Offic - Japi y o the Large Morley also was given a sus- Officer W ade had called head the 13 § Caplinl Ave. pranch: Middle West pended one-to-five-year sentence

and Circuit Judge Howard Sommer ordered him to repay the county $209 spent returning Mor-| ley from Houston, Tex., where he was arrested Oct. 9. He was indicted when - the State Board of Accouts said he failed to pay the county $2174 {in fees collected by his office. {

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hi deliberated all night, but ha ve organized {failed to break an 11-to-1 dead- crime” as the six

old Julietta worker, {fatal stabbing of a fellow work- “Emmys.” ler, Home's kitchen Oct. 21. Mr. Eads awarded by the ldied two days later. ’

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The. jury of six men and six'the fact that we | (Indianapolis Time) today.

Druggist’s Action Nabs (Narcotics Suspect R. Barrett, considered the great i A quick-thinking druggist was est private collection on the Civil credited with the arrest early to- war President, was on sale at day of a man charged with try- the Parke-Bernet gallery. The ing to pass a phony prescription gajjery was unable to place any for narcotics. ' value on the collection. Police nabbed Robert Cox, 82, Mr, Barrett's son, Rager, of of 15661; Columbia Ave. after Chicago, has revealed that at one getting a call from Druggist John time he entered into a contract Holbrook at Haag's Drug Store. with a group of Illinois citizens

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lock for acquittal of the 61-year-

Thomas was charged with the

Harry Eads, in the County] The Emmys, Academy of TéleThe stabbing was hushed up vision Arts and Sciences, went to

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and dismissed as “minor.”

: finalists selected Skelton 38tA St. and Keystone Ave. The to sell the collection for $220,000, Wiil Drop ‘Charges by 150 television i : 2 {Srugpist said Cox tried to get put was unable to raise the price In view of the o i editors of daily and trade papers morphine with a dector's pre- phy subscription. - . DW tT Caf unanimous, riughout the nation, scription. It was understood that the

vote, Prosecutor Fairchild said . | Thomas will not be tried again| Bést Comedy Show: Red Skel-| and the charges will be dismissed. ton. i “We feel it would serve no good Best Actress: Imogene Coca.

\ G v Mr. ' Holbrook said he didn't amount raised by that group, unhave the narcotic and told Cox der the name of Barrett Lincoln he could get it filled at another Collection Fund, would be used to . " Best Actor:.Sid Ceasar. all-night Haag's drug store at bid in some items at auction for Juries bo ay ni Se the Best Comedian: Red Skelton. [224 and Meridian Sts. Then he the Illinois State Library. ’ , E 'e call J i bs { 3 L f evidence was-given that could Best Dramatic Show: Studio ed police, who arrested Cox In 842 Lots

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: - Ret Variety" SHOW charged ~ VISTEON 67 the 1935 842 lot 16~ be sold 1H 10 i GOUNY Commissioners and Jus oe Shows. ; Narcotics - Act. They said the sions, this afternoon and evening e up ra i v oy said they| yy addition, Jack Burrell, of prescription was forged on a and tomorrow afternoon and evewere un oe wi about JestoriE NEC, received an Emmy for -a|stolen blank. ining. “os : omas to his old job at the ,,.apje TV transmitter which ree From a book the Boy Lincoln Car Thieves Abandon

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played canasta to while away the day, 9 p. m. {by Carl Wagner at 1437 N. Mount age of 13, only 20 years after hours. | Imogene Coca and Sid St. Lincoln's death. Thomas, who admitted stabbing, Ceasar: WITV, Saturday, | At*3818 Wren St., they wrecked — ET Mr. Fads with a penknife, con-| 8 p. m. ithe truck and changed to a sta-| SOLVED! -Your tax-money tended he acted to protect him-| Studio One: WFBM, Monday, ‘tion wagon parked by William problems, or renting, selling, self. He testified, yesterday Mr. 9 p. m.; WTTV, Sunday, Cole, motorcycle officer. Later, work-finding or loss-recovering

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