People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — ROBBED BY MASKED MEN. [ARTICLE]

ROBBED BY MASKED MEN.

Matthew Miner and His Aged Wife Are Hound and Gagged. Utica, N. Y., Dec. 27. —At 7 o’clock Saturday evening three masked men entered the farmhouse near Leonardsville, 20 miles from this place, owned and occupied by Matthew Miner. Miner is an aged man and he and his wife live alone. Three men bound and gagged the old people and then ransacked the house for valuables. They secured SI,BOO which Mr. Miner had laid by and then made good their escape. Mr. and Mrs. Miner were relieved from their unpleasant position soon after the escape of the men. The affair caused a vast amount of excitement in the neighborhood and the rogues, if captered, are likely to receive rough treatment. Officers are on their track. The men went south.