Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1911 — CHASE THROUGH CITY'S HEART [ARTICLE]

CHASE THROUGH CITY'S HEART

Bold Thug* Make Escape After Being Foiled in Burglary. i Indianapolis, June 23;’ Two welldressed men entered the Mantel jewelry store in the heart of the city at noon and knocked the clerk down with loaded rubber hoee, but, failing to silence him and fearing his calls for help would bring the officers, they fled front the building. A crowd was soon in pursuit with the two thugs running through business houses and restaurants and finally boarding an interurban car, which they left at the next corner and made their escape. Two hundred men and boys joined pursuit and many tried to stop the thugs, bur were induced to step aside when revolver* were aimed at -them The m?r evidently had planned the ro4tt they would take, for they ran through two business bouses and one restr-'iran: and by thus coming out on cthe; streets threw their pursuers off rhe tfrrk until tbev get good leads It was act until after the two men bad boarded the ear and escaped from I* that the police appeared