Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1916 — Attica Operator Held Up In Moving Picture Style. [ARTICLE]

Attica Operator Held Up In Moving Picture Style.

A daredevil holdup was staged at Attica early Wednesday morning which will rival any Hazzard of Helen ever staged for the movies. Richard Parkman, the lone operator of the Wabash railroad, was whiling away the lonely hours of the night with nothing to break the , monotony but the constant click of the telegraph instruments, and was unmindful of any danger when two masked men appeared, carrying drawn revolvers, who entered the station and demanded the money. Parkman realized that the odds were against him and submitted to the frisk Without resistance. He w r as relieved of $25, and then he w’as bound to a chair and gagged. He worked his way to the telegraph instrument and placing his foot on the key sent a message to the operator at Williamsport telling him of hi? plight. The Williamsport agent telegraphed the night marshal at At* tica, who relieved Parkman from his plight. The robbers escaped.