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Show ROBBED IN DAYLIGHT Assistant Treasurer Held TJp "While Coming From Bank. CHICAGO, Aug. 19.-A daring daylight robbery was perpetrated here today when II. C. Beard, assistant treasurer of tho Press and Sign companies here, was waylaid and robbed of $1025 by two armed men. Mr. Beard was going to tho offices of the company from a bank with tho currency for the weekly payroll. Ho was accosted by two well-dressed men. Une of the men pointed a revolver nt him and I he other struck him with a billy. Ho fell to tho ground and a valise, containing contain-ing the money, was taken from him. |