| Transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer from microfilm
of the Calhoun Chronicle dated 12/4/1894.
Word reached us Saturday evening that burglars had entered the
store
house of E.C. Knotts at Minnora and robbed the money drawer of what
change
it contained and left a part of their old clothes in the house and
donned
new ones. In addition to the money and goods, Mr. Knotts lost,
the
postoffice, which was kept in the same building, was robbed of about
$40.00
worth of stamps. As soon as Mr. Knotts found his store had been
robbed
he immediately gave chase and found traces of his men at different
points,
and the last account we had from him, which was last Saturday, was in
hot
pursuit.
The thieves gained an entrance to the store by use of
an
auger with which they bored a hole through the wall. We are not
familiar
with the location of the store as to his dwelling. At any rate
the
robbers, two in number did a successful job and traveled fifteen miles
before breakfast next morning. The robbery must have been
committed
in the early part of the night. | 
