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Show : IbusinessR ACfclibm up; : : : Twelve Men Are Placed at the Mercy of Six Armed - - Highwaymen in Chicago. ' ' ' w t .... 4 ' CHICAGO, Feb. 17. Twelve men were P " : held up today by slV armed robbers -J ' -' in the office of Max Mlldenberg, pro- ;! prietor of the Electric Light. Oil and V gasoline delivery. Clybourn place. and l Hawthorne street. The highwaymen Jl' fired several shots as they entered, wounding two persons. They knocked ... mother unconscious with a blow from j ' a. revolver. They then took more than ) $800 and escaped. ;"'' There were only four men In the of flee when the robbers entered. " F. Mlldenberg, brother of the proprle-. proprle-. tor, and Julius Bensev. the clerk, were balancing the , books, . while Richard Hayes and James Fay, 'foremen, of the drivers, were making their reports. 1 Without warning, the aix robbers appeared ap-peared and began firing. .'Bensev and Mlldenberg dropped to the" floor to escape the flying bullets, but the two foremen were struck and. slightly wounded. After the shooting the robbers rob-bers ordered the four irien to hold up their hands. At this point eight -of the drivers and fillers who were in a barn : at the rear, hearing the shooting, ran Into the office. Revolvers were pointed at them, and they, were told to ."line up" against the wall with the other four. While two of the robbers kept the victims in subjection the other four took Bensev. the clerk, into the Inner office and ordered him to open the safe. He complied, and they removed the contents, amounting to $S00, the entire-proceeds entire-proceeds of the day's sales. An inner compartment remained locked, which contained only the prU S-ate papers of the proprietor. Bensev was commanded to open this, and when he said he could not, two of the robbers rob-bers struck htm several blows with their revolvers, making him unconscious. uncon-scious. Then they carried him to the outer office, where they forced th twelve to lie face downward on "the floor until they could be searched. When they ecured all the plunder they could find the robbers ran out. Two patrol wagons crowded with po- , licemen were sent to the scene, and the neighborhood was searched, but no trace of the men could' bt found. |