The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-09-26
AN EXCITING CHASE
Bold Daylight Robbery in Chi
cago Faotory's Office.
HELD UP BY TWO MASKED MEN.
The Thieves Seized 81, 900 in Cash and
Then Made Their Escape, Though Hotly
Pursued by Large Crowd and tho Po-
lice Patrol,

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Then Made Their Escape, Though Hotly
Pursued by q Large Crowd and tho Po-
lice Patrol.
CHICAGO, Sept. 26-Two men, carefully
disguised, committed daring robbery at
the Union Foundry company's office, in
Brighton Park yesterday afternoon, and
robbed tho company of 1900. They then
escaped by means Of n buggy, but not
before they had shot one man and fired
several shots into u crowd Of people who
were chasing them. A patrol wagon gave
chase, but did not succeed in capturing
the men. The foundry is in n lonesome
plaeeat the extreme end of Brighton Park,
and no other buildings are near it.
In the Office when the robbers entered
were ID. f. O'Neill, president Of the COM
pany; NJ. A. O'Rourke, treasurer; G. X.
Hopke, general superintendent; Charles
o. German, clerk, and John o 'Neill, clerk.
Mr.. o Rourke was engaged In filling the
envelopes of the men preparatory to pay
ing off, and the top Of his desk was COW
cred with money. The robbers cQ1inelled
tho five men to line up, and while one kept
them covered with two big revolvers the
Others scooped up all tho money in sight,
about 81 600, and then both made a dash
for the door. They had left buggy stand
ing near the building, and springing into
it they drove rapidly north across the
prairie.
As soon rs the men, one of whom was
tall, the other short, were out of the office
Hopko dashed into the shop to give the
alarm to the seventy-ilve workmen em-
r,ln ,ubi Ia bntr moi ptpl
revolver at them and pulled the trigger,
but the weapon failed to explode. Presi-
dent ONcill, however, sent shot after
shot at the robbers as he ran along behind
the buggy, but none of them took effect.
The short man standing up in the
buggy also fred both his revolvcrs, and
when the chambers were empty he re-
loaded. The long man, who had thrown
his revOlyers into the bottom of the buggy,
paid no attention to the shooting, but
kept on driving the horse at a terrific rate
of speed. A large crowd was after them
in few minutes, and by the time the rob-
bcra turned into Thirty sixth street they
were confronted by crowd OF fully
u hundred men. The pursuers steadily
increased until u crowd Of several hundred
people followed close behind. Men in
wagons and bicycle riders by the score
took up the chase but the robbers horse
was Il good one and outran all of them.
Int short time the patrol wagon from
the Brighton Park police station was upon
the scene, and although the thieves had Il
long start it kept after them on full run.
AT Thirty-sixth street and California ave-
nue. the buggy toppled over and threw the
robbers into the street. The patrol wagon
was not far behind at this timc, and it was
thought they would surely be captured.
The thieves, however, quickly picked
themselves up and ran to Grand avenue.
Near the corner stood Frank Nyhofts
milk wagon, and the robbers lcaped in.
The short man drew small revolver and
fred one shot at Nyhoft the bullet taking
effect in his right leg above the knee. The
robbers whipped up the horse, which was
spirited one, and up to 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, a blonde wig
and four big revolvers used by the robbers.