Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1902 — BURGLARS GALORE. [ARTICLE]

BURGLARS GALORE.

masked man was discovered in their house by Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth about 2:30 o’clock last Friday morning, he having gained entrance by tearing off the wire of a screen door. On being discovered he demanded money and Mrs. H. gave him her pocketbbok containing four or five dollars, and the man left. The robbery was freely talked of upon the streets next day, and almost every night since then, if imagination has not played too great a part on the “victims” highly strung nerves, attempts have been made to burglarize twenty or thirty different houses. >, The few dollars obtained at Mr. Hollingsworth's, however, seems to have been all that the bold, bad burglar men have secured, and aside from furnishing about a column of cheap filling each day for the evening pop-gun, has resulted in no serious losses. Mr. Hollingsworth, like most wealthy men. keeps little cash about the house, which is a most fortunate thing when burglars are about.