Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1901 — Burglars Kill Two Men. [ARTICLE]

Burglars Kill Two Men.

A gang of three burglars was captured at Pittsburg, but not until a merchant and a detective had been killed. The two killings occurred within the hours, one early in the morning, the other in the afternoon. The police are positive that the captured men have been guilty of more than a score of robberies attempted or committed ia Pittsburg and vicinity for two month* past. At 3 i in. Thursday the wife of Thomas D. Kahne, a grocer, of Mount Washington, in South Pittsburg, was awakened by a noise In her room and saw a man standing beside the bed la which she slept with her little boy. She tried to arise and the man pushed her back, pressing a handkerchief saturated with chloroform over face. She managed to cry for help and was heard by her husband, who slept in the adjoining room. He was shot as he came to his wife’s assistance, and died in a few minutes. The murderer and two accomplices immediately fled, without any booty. Later in the day the robbers were captured, but not until the* had killed Detective P. E. Fitzgerald.