The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-09-25
oR1ME,s CAALENDAR.
ArrEAlPrED MAIL ROBBERY

ATTEMPTED MAIL ROBBERY.
Several mornings ago when little
Willford Pruyn was driving the bag
gage wagon from the depot where he
had been to take trunk for the S.45
tram, he was stopped just across from
the park on Fourth avesse by three
men who ran out from an ambush in the
darkness. One Of them caught the bit
of the near horse and stopped the team.
Another cried out, Hold on boy,
where are you goingF' Two
men climbed up IN the wagon
and looked through it saying:
"Where's the mail bag?" ''That went
mp in the bus" he replied. The men
finding he had not the mail went away.
The boy thought nothing of it at the
time and said nothing of 1t for e few
days, thinking all the while that they
wanted to mail letter or something of
the kind. II is very evident, however,
that they were after the pack of regis
tered letters in the mail bags.
SHOTS AND CRIES.
Last Saturday evening about mid
night, the community in the vicinity OF
the City Hotel on Third avenue were
disturbed from their slnmbers by SIX
shots from q heavy revolver, in rapid
succession. Immediately cries for help
and of 20, Lord and My God" etc.,
were heard, and the commotion ceased.
No more was heard and nothing further
could be learned. Several suspicious
looking characters were seen lurking
around in the vicinity, peeping in this
corner and that, and about the barns and
alleys.
ATTEMPTED RoBBERIEs OF AdIsCELL4A-
NEoUs CHARACTER.
Michael Krauber came in from the
west last Friday night and got off at the
depot 10 walk down the track to the Ire
mont house. When about half way there
he was stopped and his money was de-
manded, but he ran Immediately and es-
capped in the darkness and lives to tell
his sterY and has money TO pay his hotel
bill.
A satchel belonging TO a prominent
Emporium was cut open and completely
riddled of its contents at the Park Place,
last Saturday night. Evidently some
one wanted to make q raise before SUM-
day.
Three unknown tramps at different
times tried TO pick the pockets of Mr..
Scott last Saturday night, at Benefits
kn EAa
Santa Fe depot. They did not succeed,
however, in getting his money.
Sunday morning, about two o'clock, a
gentleman who was waiting in the de-
pot to go west in the morning, and
whose name it was impossible to learn,
as he had gone away without leaving it,
in walking out to get the air, was knock
ed down by a man who had walked up
behind and hit him in the head with a
lynch pin. Something frightened the
attacking party which numbered three
or four, and the injured man made good
his escape.
Yesterday morning as Jack Gilchrist's
bus was coming from the 3:45 train TO
the Hotel Coolidge, two men emerged
from an alley and followed it, running
fast to keep up. AS soon as the bus
passed in the light of a gas lamp, they
saw four men and thought discretion the
better part of valor. They retreated.
ANOTHER SCAMP.
James Pearson, formerly of Nation,
Illinois, came to Mr.. L. F. PruYn a week
or so ago and told him 20 sell his
wagon. He said it was his, and that he
was hard up for money. Mr.. Pruyn
sold 1t for $57 to VIM. Anderson, of
Americas. Not long afterward, the EN-
poria Hardware company levied upon it
and took it, saying that Pearson bought
1t some time ago for sos, but as he had
never paid cent on it, he had no right
whateyer to the wagon. Mr.. Anderson
then, of course, went to Mr.. Pruyn who
Immediately telegrsphed to Nation,
Illinois if Pearson was there, to which
he received an affirmative answer. MIR.
PruYE then wired back to arrest him and
hold him at all hazards until some one
came; stating the charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses. Sheriff
White started Immediately after his
man, whom the sheriff at Nation said
he had arrested and put in Jail. He will
probably arrive there this evening.
DIR. TRUEwoRTHY HELD UP.
From the Kansas City Graphic We
learn that DR.. Trueworthy. formerly
of this city, was "held up" He was re-
turning to his home on Locust street and
while near Eighth was attacked by
three highwaymen and robbed of $175
gold watch and chain, a valuable ma
sonic charm and three dollars in money.
The doctor hereafter will look ''leetle
out"
ROBBERY AT THE ROBINSON HOUSE.
Five men from Lebo, Kansas, came in
Saturday to visit friends in the city
whom they had not seen before for years
and put up at the Robinson house That
night they were robbed of all they
brought with them-moneY, watch
es, clothes and baggage. Their
names are suppressed by
request. One man lost $3.50 IN money.
A representative of THE NEWS went
to the Robinson house yesterday, but the
gentlemanly clerk there fatty denied
that any robbery had been committd.
This he evidentlysdid, as has been sug-
gested to save his reputation with the
house. People have done worse things
before to save their reputation.
Under such circumstances it was i'm
possible to learn the tull particulars any
more than one of the men who was rob-
bed would tell. There is a mystery over
the whole thing, save in the fact that it
is certain that they were robbed.