Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — $3,200 TAKEN BY ROBBERS [ARTICLE]

$3,200 TAKEN BY ROBBERS

Chicago Bank Messenger Held Up In Broad Daylight Chicago, May 80.—John Cogan, fiftyfive years old, a messenger for thd DrexgP State bank, 8944 Cottage Grovd avenue, was held up by three men shortly after three o’clock In the afternoon tn front of a grocery store afl 122 East Fifty-first street, robbed ofl $8,200 and then given into the custody of the grocery as a holdup man by one of the robbers, who escaped in an automobile. Cognn was returning from the Metropolitan Life Insurance company’s offices at Bast Fifty-first street and Michigan avenue with that company’s deposit. Two men. pressed revolvers against bls body, the third snatched the satchel containing the money while one of the others knocked Cogan down with a revolver.