People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1895 — TORTURED BY ROBBERS. [ARTICLE]

TORTURED BY ROBBERS.

Pennsylvanian Bound Head Downwar and His Feet Burned. Newcastle, Pa., March 19. —Word hreached here that five masked rob’-e entered the house of John McMilla near Watts' Mills, bound and gagg l the hired man and three women, athen waited nearly t-wo hours for t return of McMillan. When he came was bound to a board and leaned hedownward aginst the wall, while t robbers threatened him with instar death unless he divulged the hiding place of his moag,’. McMillan had de posited SI,OOO in a bank the day previous. After burning his feet wi’’ hot coals and whipping him tinmen fully the villains believed his story an departed. Mrs. McMillan and '< daughters, who were compelled to wit ness the torture of McMillan, are in i very serious condition from fright.