The San Francisco call., 1896-09-26
They Shoot a Milkman and
Escape Pursuit in His
Wagon.
POLICE JOIN IN THE CHASE
All the officers in a Chicago District
Join in the Search for the
FugitiveS.

CHICAGO, ILL, Sept. 25-Two robbers
late this afternoon entered the Office OF
the Western Foundry Company, at the
corner of Thirty-seventh street and Albany
avenue, and holding up the cashier, NJ. A.
Rourke, took $500 from the safe and es-
capped. They were pursued by crowd
which was collected by the foundry peo-
pie and were in a fair way to be captured
at Thirty sixth street and California ave-
nue., but again eluded their pursuers.
At this place the buggy in which the
men were riding broke down, and as they
were about starting to escape on foot
Frank Nyhoft, g milkman, came along.
The two men jumped into his wagon and
demanded that he vacate. On his refusing
they shot him in the leg, pitched him out
and drove away at furious pace.
Officers from the Brighton police station
who had been apprised of the outrage were
soon on the scene and started in pursuit
OF the flying robbers in a patrol wagon.
The men were lost sight of, however, but
the police. after following in the direc-
tion in which they are supposed to have
f1eo, found, nearly two miles from the
foundry, the milk wagon, which had also
broken down. The entire Southwestern
police district was notified and large de.
tail of officers was sent out.
There were five men In the Office of the
foundry when the holdup occurred. 1t is
claimed by one of these five men that the
robbers were former employees. One OF
the robbers was fashlonabIy dressed,
while the other was rather shabbily
dressed in a suit OF brown.
The police up to late hour had found
no trace OF the highwaymen.
-Four large revolvers, one light and one
dark false beard and an old sIouch hat are
locked up at the Brighton Park station.
Together with these clews the police have
at the same station the horse and buggy
used by the robbers in making their es-
cape.
The location of the hold-up was an ideal
one. The foundry is far out in the ex-
| treme end of Brighton Park. The shop is
one-story brick affair, iron ting on AL
! bany avenue, and is half a block from
Kensie avenue.
The nearest house is a saloon at Kensie
| avenue. The Office is small affair about
| 10x10 and fronts on Albany avenue. AT
the time the robbery took place there were
five men in the Office. Those who were in
the Office at the time the robbery was COM
mitted were: d. f. O'Neil, president oi
the company; NJ. A. Rourke, treasurer
G. 81. Hopke, general superintendent;
Charles o. O'Gorman, clerk, and John O'NeilI,
clerk.
President O'Neil sat at his desk convers-
/ ing with Hopke. Rourke was busy max
| ing up the payrolls and lid not see the
/ two men with long boards enter the Office
| through the door leading to the shop, and
the first he was aware of their presence
was when one of them called out in hoarse
voice that they shouid,hold up their hands.
| The five men were ordered to stand side
by side in corner of the office, and while
one of the disguised robbers covered them
with the revolver the other helped himself
to the money.
Both men then backed out of the Office
and, jumping into their buggy, drove at a
furious rate of speed across the prairie to
Thirty-sixth street. Several shots were
| fired after them, and they returned the
fire, but none of the bullets struck nybody.