Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 30, DeMotte, Jasper County, 24 June 1949 — KIDS SCARE COPS [ARTICLE]

KIDS SCARE COPS

Ann Arbor, Mich.. Juno 21. .Three gun-wielding desperadoes, sough’ y state police turned out to be three kids with cap pistols. Troopers broadcast an alarm Sunday for the trio reported to ha vie fired at an Ann Arbor police ■ ;u and fled. But,, 'ocal police explained the report was exaggerated in a relay to sta‘ ' police headquarters. They wei|e ; 1 ojdng for youngsters who had ' • n firing cap pistols out of a car window, they said.

farmer loses S3O DOLLARS TO GUNMEN Logansport, June 20. Authorities believed today that the two men who robbed Farmer Ott Robinson of S3O last night might have been the same ones who committed a S9O farm robbery near Galveston, Ind., June 8. Robinson, a farmer heir Twelve Mile, Ind., reported that the men walked into his home, threatened him with a revolver, and said, “We’re short of money.’’ Mrs. H. L. Phillips was robbed June 8 by two men who forced her to cook them a meal anl write them a check for S9O.