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Show HELD BURNING TORCHES TO FACES OF VICTIMS Horrible Torture Practiced by Robbers to Extort Honey From Family in Idaho. Jewelry. They drank considerable wine which they found in the cellar, prepared pre-pared a hearty meal. Including meat, potatoes, coffee, wine and other edibles, and coolly devoured' it. They were In the house four hours, leaving at 4 o'clock In the morning, after telling the family that they would return for the $20,000. v - iV Every policeman and detective In the city Is working on the case, but not even a clue of the Intruders' whereabouts where-abouts has been discovered. - TOLEDO, Feb. 2". Ten masked robbers rob-bers went to the home of Christian Joehlln, two miles from the city limits, Wednesday night and battered down the door.' Eight men entered, leaving two men outside on guard. . IrT the house were Mr. and Mrs. Christian Joehlln, John Anderson. Joseph Jo-seph Joehlln, also a three-year-old boy and an eighteen-months-old girl. All, I Including the baby boy and girl, were j clubbed into Insensibility, bound and gagged. . When the Joehllns recovered consciousness con-sciousness the robbers demanded $20,000. which they said they knew was secreted In . the bouse. When told that no such amount was there, the bandits applied burning torches to the faces and feet of all their victims, blistering even the infant's in-fant's feet. Christian Joehlln, an aged I paralytic, was burned so severely that there is not. a spot on his head, that 4s not bruised. , . ' ' ., The marauders, before leaving, se- curely tied their victims and searched every corner of the house, securing $300 In cash and several articles of |