People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — EVERY STORE ROBBED. [ARTICLE]

EVERY STORE ROBBED.

Thieves Carry Off the Plunder from Ooltewah, Tenn., bv the Wagonloact Chattanooga, Tenn., March 20.— A telegram received by Chief of Police Hill from Ooltewah, Tenn., says that every store in the town was robbed Friday night and asking that men and bloodhounds be sent to trace the robbers. Officers were at once sent with dogs and mounted horses to scour the intervening country. Ooltewah, the county seat of James county, is 14 miles from here. The place has seven stores. The thieves loaded the booty on wagons. At one store they blew open the safe, but as the town has no officers their work was not discovered until Sunday moaning.