Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Get #5,000 From Millionaire. Lincoln. 111., March 20.—Giving no thought to the throng that was passing by. three daring bandits slugged and robbed Millionaire Erank Frorer, Sr., one of the best known and wealthiest residents of centra) Illinois, and president of the First National bank of Lincoln, of $5,000 on one of the business streets of that city at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The bandits then made their escape, but two were later captured, after a piste* duel. The third got away with the money. The money was in gold, silver, and bills, which Mr. Frorer was carrying in small boxes in a wagon to the mine of the Lincoln Coal company for pay day. An armload of old papers for a ntekal at The Democrat office.