Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1884 — “YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE.” [ARTICLE]

“YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE.”

Petticoated Highwaymen Women Garroters Frequent in Chicago. [Philadelphia Telegram.! A young stranger in the oity, while walking along a prominent thoroughfare at 2 o’clock in tho morning, was confronted by a young and handsome-featured woman, who suddenly sprang in front of him out of a dark alleyway. Thrusting a cooked revolver under his nose, 6he gave utterance to the stereotyped highwayman’s phrase, “Your money or your life!” Preferring his life to his money, he yielded up the latter, which was eagerly snatched by the bold woman highwayman, wbo, after ordering the now thoroughly terrified man to keep silent, under pain of death, quietly walked away and disappeared in the darkness. [Chicago Dispatch.! Ed Bordlng, a waiter in theTromont House, had a queer experience at an early hour in tho morning, near the corner cf State and Polk streets. He was walking north on State street, and was rather intoxicated. He sobered up somewhat when a woman rushed up to him, with a drawn revolver, which she presented at his head, and ordered him to gjve up his property. She then relieved him of an open-faced silver watch. Women garroters have been very frequent in Ghicago this winter.