The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-20
TORTURED AN OLD WOMAN.
avn REaDER's PART IN AN UN-
.rccrssFUL MASKED ROBBERE

r.o,sht Mrs. Logan Had Se5. 600
liar IIonse-A Newspaper stenoF-
liar who says lie Was Hypnouzcd
,s,nd Reader and Couidn't Resist
.,o,r-r,ye Men Were In the job.
,,,nop. Oct. l9-hbout 1 o'clock or
f.sd,v morning Mrs. Rachel Logan's
W." too. story house. about one mile from
htNo ,Is nins miles below here. was entered
eofaos eli ed burglars. who took her from
wh.a and then. by torture and thrents OF
hV Nv hsr alive succeeded In robbing her OF
Sis -,-, ,...,t,,os learned O, tbe
.hout midnight last night. By O'Clock
a. they had four OF the men and they eN-
~ soon to get the fifth. Three have made
p,.,sions. Thoy expected to get anywhere
from s25 900 10 SoO.ooo.
Mrs Logan Is n rich widow nearly az years
IA She lives alone and walks with long
Ian. She owns large farm which 10 In the
ror.opols oil field. and her income from oil
sovolties and leases has been very large for
,.r.I wears She has been long credited
Nth hiding large sums oil money about her
house
...tssssd are John Shields a stem ographer in
~. .mploy OF the Dispatch: Bert Schumacher.
..,.or.nh operator. formerly in the employ Of
A.. n and o.. and Prof" Grant Evans, q
mind reader and mesmerist
p.sides these. Sam Laughlin. about 80 years
,id vbom the police say they never knew to
a. .nv work. is also under arrest but he de-
.i.s any completely In the affair The first
,h,.e saw that he planned the whole thing.
The attn man is another stenograpnsr.
Shields is married: anI about ~ ana ior
,sars has been a trusted clerk on the O!Spdtch.
SsnSlinc good deal OF money. He has al
ravs been faithful. When seen ut the Central
station he sa FOE ha
vans possessed u pecu lar power over him.
IA could make him lend him money and get
c e1n Shields says Evans is responsible
ior his downfall. and first proposed 1t to him:
was sg sb eGSd w rss tss
only thoroughly sober man at the time OF the
crime. which knew, l would suher Tor. and
YET could not resist, ,,
detectives, is that they learned OF Mira. Logan
tsrough Laughlln, who said they would have
a. easy ors l1b her door about o'clock on Wednes-
Taking her out OF bed they tied her to
chair. hands and feet. and drew knife across
her throat. scratching 1t; one OF their number
truck her severely on her forehead vii h the
butt Of u revolver, demanding that She should
nveal the place where her money was seereted;
She held cut braSely. Then they searched
hirh and low. turning things upside down.
emptyng preserves IRON fruit Jars. tearing
her led TO pieces. They first put up blankets
Al The windows. but they worked in vain.
Enraced, they then took nearly a gallon OF
oil which they found and poured 1t over Mrs.
iogan's yoollen night dress and about the
door. holding lighted matches dangerously
near and even firing the thick stuff and then
eItinguishing it They burned her face with
the matches. Finally she became terrorized
and showed them whore she had hidden S5l5
10 cup in the cellar.
Departing the men left her tied to her chair
with the cotton ropes they had brought.
Whether Intentionally or otherwise. one Of the
matches they dropped set fire TO the floor. Mrs.
Logan got herself loose in frantic struggle
and extinguished It. or the money secured
there were two one-hundred-d dollar bills. n
fifty dollar bill. and some twenties. Most OF it
has been recovered.
NcTighe Shore. and Robinson to work up the
case They saw Evans. asked him how much
money he had. lie replied S2S They ar
rested and searched him and found 800 till
pinned inside his trousers Telling him that
his confederates had confessed he broke
Gown and owned up.
Shields was handled in similar way. and
be also confessed as did Schumacher. Evans.
when seen. said it was n plain case 81 burglary
and nothing else. They went out there to get
$4,000 and didn't get It.
They treated the old lady very carefully. in
fact very courteously. All Schumacher would
saJ was that he was one Of the party. They
yil have hearing tomorrow. when Mrs
Logan. the officers assert. will be able to iden-
afy several OF her asSailanta