Mae West’s Tough Guys Missed the Fun

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 330, 11 January 1937, Page 2

Mae West’s Tough Guys Missed the Fun

GUARD TELLS HOW GUNMEN GAME UP BUT DID NOT SEE HER

Tough-Guy Jako Indrissando, bodyguard to Mae West, the “come-and-see-me” star, is sorry. So are Mae West’s other bodyguards. And so is Ma© West. Two armed gunmen, after th© star’s jewellery, raided the luxury apartment block where she lives in Hollywood, field up and robbed other tenants, but couldn’t wait for Mae. They made their get-away before she and her guards came on the scene. Jake told the Daily Sketch about it •in the transatlantic telephone. ‘ ‘Might’ve been fun if we’d got home i little earlier,” he drawled. "It was quite a big-scale stick-up. "These two gangster fellows walks into the garage and makes everybody reach for it. Then one of them puts on the uniform of an attendant, waits outside, and as each car draws up, opens the door and says: ‘Stick ’em up.’ "Then everybody has to get out and they ’re tied up and pilt inside the garage. There was quite a row of cars drawn up outside when we arrived. "There was cops everywhere, and other tenants who had just got out of the ropes with which they were trussed up, were cursing plenty. "It was a real clean up. They even stole a car in which to get away with—•’Oh, sure, they was waiting for Mae. She wasn’t worried, though. -She’s got plenty of nerve. She just said: ‘I guess .t was another good miss.’ ” The thieves’ haul amounted to some thousands of dollars in cash and some valuable jejwellery.