Putnam patriot., 1921-02-25
Masked BQndits Enter Home
 Hold U[p The Whole Family

Father and Mother Locked In
 Cellar.-Children Threaten
 en With Death If They Re-
 leased Them.
 Father Escapes.-Cives Alarm
 Highwaymen Flee As Shots Are Fired.
 Bureau Drawers Ransacked By
 Men Who Pose Az Revenue
 O6cers.-Nosw In Jail.
 Hands up, all of you r was the greet ing of three masked bandits, all of them flourishing revolvers, as they topped over the threshold of the home of Albert Krecilowa, East Thompson, at half past seven Wednesday eve ming. The highwaymen locked MT. and Mrs. Krecilowa in the cellar and threatened their five children with death if they attempted to release them. The bandits then starred in to ransack the house and were engaged in searching bureau drawers and cup boards when frightened away. As they made off in the darkness in a sleigh, shots were fired at them. One man was later arrested in Webster, but claimed to know nothing of the affair. Nothing was stolen.
 The family supper was over and Mr. Kreeilowa sat reading newspa- per. His wife was busy about her work and the children were sitting about the dining room table. A knock came at the outer door. MT. Krecil- owa answered the knock and opened the door. Three masked men pushed their way into the room and demand- ed that the family throw up their hands. The bandits said they were dry enforcement officers and had come to search for liquor. MT. Krecilowa said there was no liquor in the house.
 Two of the masked men ordered Mir. and Mrs Krecilowa into the cellar and locked the door. Then the ran sacking of the house began. The chil- dren were warned that If they un- locked the door it would mean death.
 MT. Krecilowa made his way out of the cellar through an outside bulkhead and ran to the place s'of Bert Kings bury, who runs the village store. He tried to make Mir lkingsbut4 nnder- stand what was happening and asked for gun. Mir. Kingsbury, who lives over the store, could not make out \ hat the man wanted. Krecilowa then ran to the house of Rev. and Mrs. J. R. Miller. Mrs. Miller called Deputy Sheriff Bates on the telephone, and also the Webster police.
 The bandits had evidently heard the commotion. caused by MT. Krecilowa and started off. In the meantime MT. Eiogshnrv bad come out armed with a rife. Two of the men jumped into the sIeigh in which the hold-up party ar rived and the other ran off. Shots were fired at them as they disappear ed.
 Chief Canty of Webster told Patrol man Arthur Parranto to be on the lookout for mustached man wearing a mackinaw and riding in a slei gh. Such a man came into Webster from the directi 1n of Dudley and was taken to the police station. The man said he had been driving about Webster all the evening but, according to the po- lice, his stories as to where he had h~ea conficted. Police of surround ing towns have been given descriptions
 f the other two ment and are on the watch for them.
 Quick work by Chief Canty of Web ster during the morning, Thursday, resulted in the arrest of three men, Michael Dzurgot, Joseph Reszinski and Frank Duziak, all of Webster, who were taken to Thompson by Dep uty Sheriff William N. Bates. The men were arraigned before Justice Randolph H. Chandler and pleaded guilty. They were bound over to the superior court and in default of bonds of $500 were taken to Brooklyn jail.
 The oldest of the trio was talkative. He told Sheriff Bates that they had been at East Thompson Wednesday afternoon looking over the ground. They went to the store and made a small purchase and intended at first to get in there that night. They did in fact go to the home of the store keeper and rap, but he wouldn't open the door so they went to the home where the holdup was staged.
 In the pocket of one of the men was found clipping cortaining the decision of southern judge who de- cided that liquor could be stolen with out fear of prosecution because 1t had no egal status. One of the men told the sheriff that they thought If they found liquor the man would not dare to "squeap on them.
 The oldest of the trio was 34 and has a jail record. The youngest was 24. There was fourth man n the party, but ncne of the three arrested would tell who he was. All of the men returned to Webster in the sleigh, but all but thes driver got out before entering the town.
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