Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1906 — ATTEMPTED HOLD-UP. [ARTICLE]

ATTEMPTED HOLD-UP.

O. H. McKay, the laundryman, reports that an attempt was made to hold him up at an early hour last Friday morning. He is in the habit of going to the laundry at about 5 o’clock each morning and starting the fires. On leaving Friday morning by the rear door a revolver was shoved in his face by a masked man and a demand made that he return to the building and open the safe. He shot out his arm and the fellow went down ( but at about the same instant a confederate in hiding struck Mr. McKay over the head with some blunt instrument and he went down also. In falling he grappled with his assailant and was cut by something on the leg and across one band. The two men disappeared in the darkness as soon as they could break He thinks he knows the identity of the men and that they belong here. Evidently they were acquainted with the “lay of the land.” ______ Everything for your Thanksgiving dinner at Murray Co.’s new grocery.