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Show OLD COUPLE TORTURED BY MASKED BURGLARS Blistered Feet of Man Until He Told Where His Money Was Hidden Away. 00 CONNELLLSVILLE, Pa., Jan. 6. Levi Eicher, aged 59 years, and his j wife, residing in Springfield township, have been tortured by masked thieves, until they told where their money Tiras hidden. The robbers held a lighted lamp to Mrs. Elcher's feet and burned them until the flesh fell off before she would consent to show them the strong box, where 1225 In bills was hidden. Then they bound the victims to the bed and left them, taking a horse and saddle from the barn. Eicher, it Is said, recognized one of the thieves. |