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Show WORK OE ROBBERS HAS AROUSED COMINITY LYNCHING IS THREATENED IF MEN ARE CAPTURED, Five Masked Men Broke Into Home of Woman Ninety Years Old. & ' Pittsburg, Juno 6. Tho work of rob-' bexs today at Belmont, Pa., near here, has so aroused tho community that a lynching is threatened if the men arc captured. Five men, all masked, broke into the home of Mrs. Minnio Ashe, ninety years old and ransacked the place. With the aged woman were her daughter, Mrs. Mary Ober, sixty years old, and rner granddaughter. granddaugh-ter. Miss Minnie Ober, twenty-threo years old. The men found only ?3.50 in the house and believing there was more they bound the three women and tortured them. They used picture pic-ture wire in fastening the three women wo-men to chairs. They then held lighted candles to their bare feet. Before leaving leav-ing the house the burglars released Miss Ober, who recovered sufficiently to summon help. I |