The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-03-04
Matt Mungen, Jr., Meets HoId.up
Man on Market Street and Is
Relieved of vaIuabIes
BANDIT USES A REVOLVER
Mungen is Even Forced to Take off His
Gloves and Give Them to the
Daring Highwaynan Who
Seems to Have Escaped

The most daring and successful of
the long list Of hold-ups that have oc
Cured in Kenosha during the past few
years occurred just after eleven O clock
of West Main street on Market street
when Matt Munger, Jr., employed by
the Kenosha Home Telephone Company,
was held up and robbed Of valuables
to the amount of over a hundred dol
lars. Mungen had been visiting with
| a friend on West Market street and
was on his way home at the time he
was stopped by the daring highway
man and robbed.
The hold-up took place just in front
of the warehouse of the Dunnebacke
Company. Munger had passed the spot
earlier in the evening and at that time
had seen suspicious looking character
lurking about the premises, but he had
not given the matter a second thought
He came down the street whistling
along and when he was few feet from
the shadow thrown by the warehouse
he saw a man step out Of the hallway
of store building on the north side of
the street and hurriedly cross to the
other side. Mungen went whistling
along until the fellow approached him
and without a word of warning thrust
revolver into his face and demanded
that he throw up his hands. Mungen
was little slow to comply with the
suggestion and the fellow pulled back
the hammer Of the revolver in q
menacing way and Mngen threw out
his arm in an effort to knock the re-
volver out Of the man S hand. "Don u
try any Of that shouted the fellow
and at the same time he struck Munger
a blow in the chest which knocked the
wind out of him. Mungen then came
the better part of valor and without
further adieu handed over to the fel
low his gold watch and chain, which ht
valued highly, twentyone dollars il
money, and a package of cigarettes
The fellow smiled as he pocketed thu
booty and then seeing that Munger
wore a decidedly good pair Of glove
he ordered him to pull off the glove
and hand them over. Mungen liket
the gloves and he started to remon
strate with the man, but at this tim,
the fellow brought the gun close to thu
face of Mungen and he complied. Their
the man directed Mungen to hurr,
away and make no cutlery and Mungen
thoroughly scared, complied. The fel
low slipped away in the darkness an(
by the time Mungen had reported to thu
police he had been able to make hi
getaway. No trace Of him has since
been found. Mungen states that tn,
fellow was about thirty fve years o.
age, but he is not able to give any de
scription Of the man.
The police are making every posi-
, BILE effort to find the guilty man. Nun
gen reported the hold-up to the police
within fifteen minutes after he hat
been relieved of his watch and money
and drag net was at once thrown ou-
to catch any suspicious character
about the city. \ Three arrests were
made and the men taken to jail OF
suspicion, but none Of them have beer
identified as the man who robbed Nun
gen. The police seem to think that il
is possible that the hold-up was the
work OF some tramp who had been loaf
ing around the yards of the Northwest
ern Railway Company and acting Oh
this theory these yards are being
searched. The fellow evidently timed
his work well for shortly after the
hold-up freight passed through the
yards and it would have been an easy
matter for him to have boarded this
freight and get out of the reach of the
Kenosha officers.
The hold-up is very similar to that
attempted on young Arthur Donley q
few nights ago and it is just possible
that gang of hold-up men are at
work in the city.