People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1895 — BATTLE WITH BURGLARS. [ARTICLE]

BATTLE WITH BURGLARS.

Farmer Shot and <) ne of the intruders Receives a Knife Wound. Sfamock, Ind., Jan. 31.—At Todd postoffice, a few miles from Kurtz, Ind., two men entered the home of John Hellenburg by breaking in the door. Upon being awakened Hellenburg arose in bed, when the burglars opened fire upon him, one ball striking him in the breast. Mrs. Hellenburg and two sons then arose, and, with a corn knife, a board and fists, after a desperate struggle, succeeded in driving the bnrgulars away, but not until the skull of one of the sons was fractured and one of the robbers was severely cut with the corn knife.