Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1908 — Daring Express Robbery. [ARTICLE]

Daring Express Robbery.

Mansfield, 0., Jan. 30. —Shortly-after midnight two masked men entered the office of the Adams Express company at the Union station here, knocked William Depew, the agent, unconscious, and got away with $3,00) while nearly fifty passengers stood about the station waiting for trains. A bag containing $40,000 in gold lying near the $3,000 was overlooked by the robbers. who were captured later at New London.