JOHN EMMIGER HELD UP, ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK

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SOURCE: BUFFALO EVENING NEWS -VOL.XXXIV -VOL.145- September 27, 1897 
HIGHWAYMAN SCARED HIM 

BOLD BAD MEN OPERATED IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY OF DUNKIRK SATURDAY NIGHT
(Special to the evening news)

DUNKIRK, Sept.27 - John Emmiger, a clerk in the M. Paulus' grocery, was held up by two
highwaymen in a lonely part of the city shortly after 10 o'clock Saturday night.  Mr. Emmiger
was on his way to the store after delivering a load of groceries and when near the Roerts Road
the two footpads sprang out from behind a fence, one of them grabbed the horse by the bridle,
while the other jumped into the wagon and grasping Mr. Emmiger by the throat ordered him in a
threatening manner to shell out all the cash in his possession, which amounted to but 75 cents.
Mr. Emmiger was so badly frightened that he was unable to give the police a very accurate
description of the highwaymen, but said their faces were concealed by heavy slouch hats.
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