Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1903 — Medaryville Post Office Robbed. [ARTICLE]

Medaryville Post Office Robbed.

A daring post office robbery ooooured early Saturday morning at Medaryville in whioh the thieves succeeded in making good their escape, taking with them $250 in money and $l5O in stamps. On the night of the robbery one of the section houses along the Three I railroad in the vicinity of San Pierre, was broken into by the unknown thieves and a hand oar taken out, whioh they transferred to the Monon traoks and on whioh they rode to a point a half mile north of Medaryville where, as the traoks showed, they left it in the ditoh and proceeded on foot to the town. The robbers had undoubtedly made their plans several days before hand, and were evidently not entirely new at the business as they entered the building and opened the safe without using any foroe whatever, After getting all the booty in sight they made their way baok on foot to the point where they had left the hand oar, and from there they started north on the Monon tracks. The faot that the hand oar has not been recovered leads many to believe that the men must have gone as far north on the Monon as Rivereide, where the Eankakee river is very deep and then threw the oar into the water. Medaryville has no night and consequently nobody knew anything of the robbery until about 7 o’olook Saturday morning, when Postmaster A. G. Lewark ooming down as usual for the business of the day. found the door standing open and the safe rifled of its oontents. It is not probable that any efforts will be made to capture tbs tbaivee.