Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Star, March 7, 1930, p. 3.
Bob Ikerd of Bedford is the object of a search on the part of Lawrence and
Monroe County police officials following his escape from the Michigan City
Prison last week. Ikerd led the gang of three men and one girl that
kidnapped John Chitwood, local filling station attendant, August 21, 1938,
and late engaged in a gun battle with Bedford police.