Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1916 — AUTO BANDITS AT HAMMOND [ARTICLE]

AUTO BANDITS AT HAMMOND

Hehl Up Seven Restaurants and Escaped wit li $3,000. Hammond, October 9. —Automobile bandits held up seven restaurants in northern Hammond today and made their escape with about $3,000 in cash. The bandits numbered six. At. each stop three remained in the machine while the other three entered the restaurants, and with a flourish of revolvers emptied the cash registers, which had been filled to overflowing by the large crowds that motored out from Chicago during the warm weather yesterday. The places robbed are: Culeo’s, Slowman’s, Lungren’s, Smldt’s, The Point Case, Hammond Beach Inn, Geneva House, and the Indiana Inn. The robbers fled across the state line into Illinois.