The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1900-09-07
ROBBERS BEAT 4 WOMAN.
Dastardly Work by Thugs in Rob
bing Kanorado Station.
While Her Husb md Is Away Three NAKED
Men Dtcoy 8Irs- Young IntO Trap
and Then Knock the Woman
Do1Tn with a=TEeToiFer.

Young, station agent for the Rock
Island at Kanorado, Kan, Is miles
vest Of GoodIand, was held up BY
three masked men Saturday night, but
the robbers, finding no money, retired
into the darkness leaving Mrs. Young
who offered resistance with a sealing
iron-bOUnd and gagged and in a state
Of Inconsistencies from being struck
By g revolver IN the hands Of one Of
the robbers. This was the condition
in which Mr. Young found his wife
upon returning from q session Of the
WOOdman lodge. He at once summon
ed DR.. L. L. DAVIS who resusticated
Mrs. Young. The sheriff at GoodIand
was notified, but as get the hold-ups
have not been apprehended.
It was $50 o'clock Saturday night
when Mrs. Young, who had locked the
doors and gone to the upper rooms
Of the station, heard q knocking upon
the door near the Office. Her husband
was at a meeting Of the Woodman
lodge. She knew that it could not be
Mr.. Young as be had key to that door,
and thinking that someone from the
country had called to transact some
urgent business as is sometimes the
case, she came down stairs and opened
the door. Three men entered unceri-
monioUsly, crOwdinR Mrs. Young
through the inner Office doorway. She
vas alarmed at the rude intrusion Of
the men, but when the leader Of them
requested that she call up Goodland
and ask for the time of No. 3, Mrs.
Young was mOmentarily composed by
this business like inquiry, but moment
arily it was, for the speaker immediate
ly followed his inquiry with the stern
command: sGive US your money, and
do it id quick
Mrs. Young is a pleasant little woman
and Of retiring air, but when aroused
By such q brazen order as here met her
ears she proved herself to be a woman
Of nerve and courage. The lights being
dim she had not noticed until now the
faces of the men, and looking up with
more scrutiny saw that the burly fell
lows were masked, with revOlvers in
hand. Realizing her predicament and
hoping to evade the clash Of the thugs
until her husbands return, which she
momemtariIy expected, Mrs. Young re-
spOnded TO the demand for money By
saying that she had no money and
neither was there any in the Office, but
the men would not be parleyed with
and began to break open a suspicious
looking drawer, keeping the feminine
victim at bay at the point of a pistol
The noise from the breaking Of the
drawer excited the dog, which came
down stairs barking. The burglars
turned to see if there was any approach
OF danger, and as they did so the little
woman seized a sealing iron and hurled
it with all her strength at one of the
robbers, the missile striking him in the
back Of the head and knocking him
down. The bandits then turned mer-
ciIessIy upon their helpless victim and
struck her to the floor, one blow from
q revolver laying hard upon her fore
head while another from a billy land
ing upon the back OF her head. She
was then bound. A Turkish towel tied
about her mouth served as a gag.
While Mrs. Young thus lay uncon.
scious the robbers began riiing the
cabinets and drawers which they sus-
peeted might contain money. They
found none and left.
An old looking wooden case was the
only thing not touched and in it wa:
1886, $500 Of which belonged to Mr.
Young and $50 to the Rock Island com
pany.
Mr.. Young returned from lodge a
ten o'clock and found his wife in Z
perilOus condition. DR.. Davis vas cal
led and it took half an hour to reviv'
Mrs Young. The towel tied about be-
face so obstructed her breathing tina
It left her very exhausted. She is i'm
proving however but suffers consider
ably from the blows received upon tn
head.
The authorities at Goodland wer
notified Of the hold-up, but Sheriff
Walker vas in Colby aud when be re
turned Monday began to ferret out tn
whereabouts Of the robbers, who as ye
have not been captured. No FeBsrl
hiss been offered for their capture b,
the Rock Island and not until Tuesda,
did 3 company detective arrive at Kan
orsdO 70 look into the matter-
Sheriff Walker thinks be has tn
bandits located near Norton, and vii
telegraph for their arrest should b
become convinced that they are tn
men Who held-up and cruelty beat Mrs.
Young. The wound made in the bacl
OF the head Of one Of the robbers b
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