Semi Weekly Bourbon News

DOMESTIC.
Daring Work of Masked Burglars in St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, December 12.—There is great indignation here over the doings of a band of masked burglars and thieves, who last night took possession of the North End, and, with pistols flourishing, perpetrated no less than five daring robberies. Their methods were open robbery, accompanied with force and violence. Weapons were used, and the scoundrels were not at all slow nor unwilling to shed blood if the slightest resistance was offered. Only a few days ago a saloon opposite the west gate of Bellefontaine Cemetery was robbed. All the visitors were made the victims, as well as the proprietor, the raiders displaying their pistols and threatening to kill in true "James boys" style. No clue to the gang was discovered, and nothing further was heard of this nature until last night. Then John Neiss' saloon, No. 903 Fourth street, was entered by three masked men, who fired at the bartender, and then stole all the money in the place. Five other establishments were entered and robbed in the same way. At John Kellman's corner of Sixteenth street and Cass avenue, the gang saw Kellman close his place and then enter an outhouse in the yard. Scarcely had he done so when two men leaped from behind a shed and each of them presented a pistol at him through the door. He says the barrels shone like silver in the moonlight. Mr. Kellman closed the door and shouted loudly for the police. The men ran away and he saw them no more. They caught a butcher in the act of closing his place, and made him throw up his hands, and then turned his pockets inside out. The robbers are described to be about five feet six inches in height, wearing stiff hats and none of them seemed to be over twenty-three years of age. All last night and this morning the police and the special officers were busy on the case.