Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1920 — THIEVES MADE RAID ON ROSELAWN FRIDAY NIGHT [ARTICLE]

THIEVES MADE RAID ON ROSELAWN FRIDAY NIGHT

Hold-up men, traveling by automobile, swooped down on Roselawn Friday night, robbed the J. R. Mulder general store, the Standard Oil company office and the depot, and made their getaway. At the Mulder store the thieves secured about five hundred dollars worth of merchandise, consisting of groceries, dry goods and sugar. At the office of the Standard Oil company the men filled their car with gasoline and oil and then opened up the tanks and permitted the oil and gasoline to run out on the floor. <’ At the Monon station, although securing nothing, the burglars tore the telephone off of the wall and disturbed things in general. - . , ~ No trace has been secured of the men. . /