Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1914 — BURGLARS IN NORTH JASPER. [ARTICLE]

BURGLARS IN NORTH JASPER.

Fendig's Drug Store at Wheatfield Robbed —Also Rob Cash Register at Demotte. The Fendig drug store at Wheatfield was broken into Wednesday night and the cash register and a few quarts of liquors, some cigars and other articles taken. The thieves pried open the front doqr and made a clean get-away. The cash register was found next morning at the C. I. & S. railroad station. It is also reported that a cash register was robbed at Demotte, but only a few pennies were secured at each place. It is said that the robbers stole a ‘speeder” at Demotte and rode to Wheatfield on it. By some it is though to have been the work of a couple of tramps who were released from custody in Wheatfield for drunkenness Wednesday evening, and who went west on the C. I. & S. railroad track. There was talk of securing bloodhounds, if possible, to put on the track of the robbers, but we were un?>le to learn whether this had been done or not.