Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1910 — OFFICER ASSAULTED; POSTOFFICE ROBBED [ARTICLE]

OFFICER ASSAULTED; POSTOFFICE ROBBED

Four Robbers Seize Officer and Force Him to Witness Crime. Utica, N. Y„ Jan. 21.—Chief of Police Bronner of the village of Mohawk, in Herkimer county, was patrolling his beat when four armed yeggmen darted out of an alley and seized him. After relieving him of his pistol and club they forced him to enter the postoffice, where they bound and gagged him and made him watch them open the safe. They secured $2,000 in stamps and money and effected their esfcape, leaving the chief a prisoner in the postoffice building. Bror.ner, after working more than an hour at the ropes and wire which bound him managed to set himself fre% and sounded an alarm. A posse was organized and are endeavoring to pick up the trail of the yeggmen. Chief Bronner is suffering from a lacerated scalp as tfie result of being hit by a coupling pin in the hands of the bandits.