Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-10-02
WERE VERY BOLD
A Pair of Chicago Thieves Hold Up
the Office Force in a Business
Place
AND CAPTURE ALL The MONEY
In Spite of a Vigorous Pursuit the
Robbers Manage to Make
Their Escape.

CHICAGO, Sept. 25.-Two men, carefully
disguised, committed daring robbery
at the Union Foundry company's Office
in Brighton Park this afternoon, obtain
ing $1,000. They then escaped by means
Of a buggy, but not before they had
shot one man and fred several shots into
crowd Of people who were pursuing
them. The patrol wagon gave chase,
but did not succeed in capturing the
robbers. The foundry is lonesome
place at the extreme end Of Brighton
Park and no other buildings are near it.
In the office when the robbers entered
were d. F. O'Neill, president of the COM
pany; M. A. Rourk, treasurer: G. r.
Hope, general superintendent; Charles
O'Gormon and John O'Neill, clerks.
Rourk was engaged in filling envel-
opes with wages, preparatory to paying
off, and the top of his desk was covered
with money. The robbers compelled
the five men to line up, and while one
kept them covered, the other scooped
up all the money in sight, about $1,000,
and then both made dash for the door.
They had left buggy standing near
the building and, springing into it, they
drove rapidly north, across the prairie.
AS soon as the men, one of whom was
tall, the other short, were out of the
office, Mr.. Hope dashed into the shop
to give the alarm to rs workmen en-
ployed there, while President O'Neill
and Rourk, grabbing revolvers, started
in pursuit. Rourk pointed his revolver
at the robbers and pulled the trigger,
but the weapon failed to explode.
O'Neill, however, sent shot after shot at
the robbers as he ran along the road
behind the buggy, but none of them
took effect. The short man, standing
up in the buggy, also fired both his re
volvers and when the chambers were
empty he reloaded. The long man, who
had thrown his revolvers into the bot
tom Of the buggy, paid no attention to
the shooting, but kept on driving the
horse at terrific rate of speed. A large
crowd was after them in few minutes,
and by the time the robbers turned into
Thirty y.sixth street, they were
confronted by a crowd of
fully 100 men. The pursuers steadily
increased until crowd of several hun
dred people followed close behind. Men
in wagons and bicycle riders by the
score took up the chase, but the rob-
bers' horse was good one and outran
all of them. In a short time the patrol
wagon from Brighton Park police station
was upon the scent and although the
thieves had long start, it kept after
them on a full run. At Thirty-sixth
street and California avenue the buggy
tipped over and threw the robbers into
the street. The patrol wagon was
not far behind at this time, and
it was thought they would surely be
captured. The thieves, however. quickly
picked themselves up, and dashing across
the prairie, came out on Grand avenue.
Near the corner stood milk wagon, and
the robbers leaped in. The short man
drew small revolver and fred one shot
at the milk man, the bullet taking effect
in the right leg above the knee. The
robbers whipped up the horse, and up to
a late hour had not been captured.
Later the horse and wagon of the milk
man were found standing in an alley. In
the bottom Of the tipped-over buggy
were found two dark false boards, q
blonde wig and four revolvers used by
the robbers.