Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1893 — Held Down And “Held Up.” [ARTICLE]

Held Down And “Held Up.”

A BOLD HIGHWAY BOBBERY IN WALKEB TOWNSHIP. Last Saturday night, about 8 o’clock, near Walker school house, in Walker tp., James Wenrick, on his way home from Rensselaer in a road cart, was suddenly stopped by a man in the middle of the road, who took hold of his horse’s bridle. Wenrick ordered the man to let go, but he said that he “had business” with him. Just then two more men grabbed Wenrick from behind and pulled him out of his cart, and throwing him flat on his back and after choking him, holding a revolver in his face and otherwise maltreating him, they demanded his money. Wenrick said he had none, but one of the men said “you lie, you, you have sold your cattle and have got the money. They then searched Wenrick, but found only IO cents. In his left hip pocket, which they did not think to search, was a pocket book containing ten dollars in money, and a bank check. After the robbers let Wenrick go, they fired several shots, to show that they meant business. They handled Mr. Wenrick very roughly, and atlast accounts he was sick from the effects of their treatment.