Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1915 — DeMotte Man Robbed of $47 and Check Monday Night. [ARTICLE]

DeMotte Man Robbed of $47 and Check Monday Night.

Jacob Burma, a well-to-do Holland farmer who lived by himself about a half mile north of DeMotte, was the victim of robbers last Monday "night. While he was asleep some one entered the window of his bedroom and took his trousers outside, relieving them of $47 and a check for SSO. The latter cannot be cashed, horwever. Bloodhounds were secured from Paxton, 111., and after running several times between the house and the outhouse went directly to the railroad depot at DeMotte and evidently the thief or thieves had escaped on the train. The bloodhounds were then taken to Shelby to try to ascertain if the thief had changed cars there but they did not take up the scent.