Richard Schmid 1881

SCHMID

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 5/13/2016 at 13:58:17

Dubuque, Herald – Jan. 4, 1881

Saloon Robbed

Last Sunday evening Richard Schmid, keeper of a saloon corner, Jackson & 12th Streets, became the victim of a heartless robbery that makes a man mourn for man’s inhumanity to man. Between six and seven o’clock a number of fellows were in the saloon singing and talking in a lively manner, and ordering up drinks and keeping Mr. Schmid and his wife actively engaged. While thus engaged someone of the party or an outsider slipped around to the rear of the house, entered the residence and took out bureau drawer, carried it into the yard where it was rifled of $50 in money and left there. Some person must have known that he had a little of his hard earnings laid by and took this occasion to possess it. It must have been someone well acquainted with the premises, knowing where the valuables were kept. This is a heathen robbery. Mr. Schmid is a poor hard-working man, and has been losing time saving even that small sum.