Joseph Krupp

In the early hours of a snowy April morning in 1910, Indianapolis Police Officer Joseph Krupp, a 28-year-old man, was on patrol in the Haughville railroad yards. It was just after midnight on April 19th when he and his partner, Officer Albert C. Groves, spotted two men lingering suspiciously near the Minker Street intersection of the Belt railroad. The officers were under orders to be on the lookout for burglars who had been active in the city, and these two individuals fit the description of th ...