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Robbed By Brutes

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
July
Year
1889
Copyright
Public Domain
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Minne Ar yus, Mlnn., JalyS. - The boldegt, most sucoesRfu! and moBt reckless hihway robbery evti attempted in thiscity occurred in the glwing Hgjht of day last Tuesday mornicj md ha just come to light Heury Etaa carne here for the purpose of nuurying his sweetheart. Miss Rena Dysst Tuesday morning Hage left the hous ; for the purpose of getting shaved at Kessler's barber-shop. He found no one at the shop and started homeward, and on the way back he was accosted by a stranger who said he was a barber and wouJd take him to his house and Bhave him. Hage accompanied him, and they had proceeded but a short distance when the pseudo barber dashed a quantity of vttriol in Hage's face. Hage was taken out in the woods a distance of about ten miles from the scène of the attack, and, after robbing him of about 20,000, the brutea bound him hand and foot and tíed him to a tree. Hage remained in the woods unconscious, bound and helpless for three days. Friday he succeeded in freeing himBelf and wandered home. He has not yet regained his senses and may become permanently deranged. There is no clew to the thieves. The $30,000 of which he was robbed was in the form of two negotiable drafts, one on a Milwaukee and the other on a New York bank. Hage had asmall sum of cash, a diamond ring, a diamond breast-pin, a gold watoh and chain and a pair of diamond earrings in hls possession, and all were taken Trom him. With the exception of a farm valued at $1,200 the thieves gtripped hira of all his prooerty, besides probably diafiguring hls face for life.

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Ann Arbor Register