Madison County IL Archives News.....Must Pay Or Be Murdered. January 28, 1901
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The Weekly Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., Monday, Jan 28, 1901 January 28, 1901
Band of Blackmailers are after the Farmers of Illinois.
Alton, Ill., January 25. -- The "invincible thieves" who attempted to extort 
with threats large sums of money from the east Alton farmers have at last shown 
their hand.

They attempted tonight to assassinate George Schillinger, one of the farmers 
who refused to pay them.  Schillinger, fearing the blackmailers would dynamite 
his home, as they had threatened, moved to Choteau island, in the Mississippi 
river.  Today he moved back to his farmhouse.  About 8 o'clock tonight 
Schillinger saw a stranger step to a window and point a pistol at him.  The 
window pane was shattered and a hired man who sat near Schillinger received the 
thirty-eight caliber bullet in his arm.

The sheriff offers a reward of $1,000 and the farmes, $500 for the capture of 
the "Invincibles" dead or alive.  Schillinger is township collector of his 
township and has asked that some one be appointed, as he fears to handle the 
tax payroll money while the blackmailers are after them. 

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