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From: "Jim Laird" <>
Subject: [KSJEFFER] Article: Burglars In Oskaloosa: Several Surnames..
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 11:02:04 -0500


The Oskaloosa Times
Saturday
May 15, 1896

Burglars in Oskaloosa.

Sunday night--or probably Monday morning, burglars entered the residence of Geo. McPHERSON, went into his bedrooms and took his pants out into the yard where the pockets were emptied of their contents--only money was taken, between eleven and twelve dollars, knife, keys and purse being left with the pants in the front yard.
About two o'clock Monday morning A.E. PATTERSON was awakened by some one opening a door and apparently striking a light in his dining room, but when he spoke to his wife (thinking the intruder was his one Ed) the light went out, and one one answered his call except to hurriedly shut the outside door to the summer kitchen. It is though that his is the same person or persons who got into McPHERSON's house.
Lou EVANS says there was some stranger in his house about midnight Sunday night, but he thought it was one of the boys until the fellow made such a hasty escape when spoken to.
No clue has as yet been obtained as to the guilty parties.

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