Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1916 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

News Items • From All Oven Indiana. WOMAN ON TRIAL AS “YEGG” Mrs. Bernice Parker of Indianapolis Defends Herself in Circuit Court Against Charge of Complicity in Attempted Bank Robbery. I Franklin, Oct 6. —The first woman *to be placed on trial in Indiana for a “yeggs’ job” is Mrs. Bernice Parker of Indianapolis, who defended herself in ithe circuit court against a charge of complicity in the attempted robbery of the Citizens National bank at Greenwood last April. Dewitt Parker, her husband, and Alfred Isley, who confessed to an attempt to blow the bank safe, are in prison for their crime. The state has brought them here to testify 'that. Mrs. Parker planned the bank robbery and when they bungled the job, deserted them. i Gary Band of Swindlers Fails. { Chicago, Oct. 6.—For once the “Gary gang”—so called because its members make their headquarters in Gary, op erating wire-tapping, fake horse racing and other swindling games—“fell down on the job.” It happened in East Chicago. Two men, a young one and an older companion, exuding ,wealth and “big business,” alighted from a South Shore Interurban train and walked hurriedly into the East Chicago bank. The older man opened his pocketbook, exposing a healthy roll of yellow-backed bank notes, and drew out a draft on the Continental and Commercial National bank of Chicago. It was for §IO,OOO. He handed it to the cashier, H. R. Groves, and ■asked for the money “right away.’’ The cashier couldn’t give him the money right away. He must call up the Chicago/bank first. The two then went to thl First National bank and gave the a draft for the same amount, on the same bank. Then they actually wenl into a drug store and ordered a drink And while they were waiting they got a signal from a man in the lobby ol the First National—who overheard Mr, Funkey’s long-distance conversation; and they ran out of a side door without tasting their drink, without waiting for their change.