Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1908 — FARM RESIDENCES ROBBED. [ARTICLE]

FARM RESIDENCES ROBBED.

The residences of Cyril Steele of Barkley tp., and H. E. Parkinson •f Marlon, tp., were entered Wednesday afternoon while allthe folks were away, by burglars, and every drawer in the two houses gone through. At the Steele residence Mr. Steele lost $35 and Mrs. Steele lost two or three dollars ■ore. At the Parkinson residence Mrs. Parkinson lost two valuable rings and Mr. Parkinson lost his revolver. Curtis Steele, who was working for him,, lost 16 in cash and his sister Blanche, who is also working for the Parkinsons,' lost her watch and a ring. In the afternoon a man called at the Stackhouse residence and wanted to sell a razor. Later It is presumed the same man called at the residence of Jack Hoyes on the old Sim Dowell farm, and inquired for a man who has never lived in that neighborhood. Mrs. Hoyes thinks that the description of the man at Stackhouse’s does not tally with the one that stopped at her house, tout there may have been more than one, and it would be an easy matter to “make up” a little different on the road between the two places. A man giving the name of Dickinson was arrested in town Wednesday night but he proved an alibi and was turned loose Thursday morning. He was about 20 years of age, while the man seen at the Hoyes place was' ah older man than that. From the fact that the Wheatfield postoffice was robbed during the same night it is possible that these men went in that direction and had a hand in the latter robbery.