People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — ROBBED OF SAVINGS. [ARTICLE]

ROBBED OF SAVINGS.

Farmer and Jlls Wife Held Over Flames In Ohio to Win Their Secret. Toledo, Ohio, March s.—Jacob Sbonbriek Is a wealthy old German farmer, who lives near the Michigan line, some forty miles northwest of Toledo. Late Saturday night four masked men forced an entrance to the house, bound and gagged his wife, his two daughters, and a young son, and then ordered him at the point of a revolver to disclose the hiding place of his money, which was known to be in the house. He refused and the robbers tortured both him and his wife until they fainted. The wife finally disclosed the hiding place of the money and the robbers secured over $6,000. The old man will not talk, and the rumor is that the leader of the g.tng was aman who is acquainted with the details of a crime in Shoribrick’s history, and that the latter fears to make any efforts toward apprehending the criminals for fear of his own safety.