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Show MnaaMMMpMMMpvnvvMHlMBMaHMII THE MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY Of A NEW BROKER j Bookkeeper Says He Was Knocked Unconscious Un-conscious by Stranger, Who Got Away With Thirteen Hundred Dollars, aoldflcld, Nov. Herbert K. Itlggs, bookkeeper for K. 11, Newland, n broker, was found unconsclmiH on the floor of his office last Saturday night. T'.ic door of the safe was open and the cash, amounting to $1..1fl0, had been taken. A physician was summoind and Hlggs was revived Willi eoni-M"r-uhlo difficulty. Two big lumps on the forehead showed where he liad been struck with some blunt instnmitnt. Hlggs says he was woikln? over bis books when a strangoi appeared at the cashier's window and askod for money. There was a stack of gold on th? desk, In front of the bookkeeper nt the time. Rlggs says he know nothing more until he recovered conscloun ncss. When he was found by Harry Greve, a nephew of Newland, n heavy hammer was picked up from the nonr near where he lay. It Is thought that the robber used the hammer on his Victim. |