THE LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, Missouri, Friday, June 22, 1917. WOMAN ASSAULTED AND ROBBED OF $850.00 MONDAY AFTERNOON. When John Milch, a foreigner employed in the mines here, returned home from work about four o'clock Monday afternoon, he found his wife gagged, bound hand and foot, tied to a bed and robbed of the family savings amounting to $850.00, which she had been carrying in the bosom of her dress. The robbery was committed about 11 o'clock in the morning and Mrs. Milch had remained tied until her husband found her. Her wrists and hands were badly swollen from the effects of the ropes with which she had been tied. She also had two ugly bruises on her which she said were inflicted with a hatchet. Mrs. Milch has identified Gus and Tony Sincik and Zygmond Wojick, fellow countrymen, as the robbers. The Sincik brothers were arrested at a wedding celebration in what is known as Jaybird town in the neighborhood of where the robbery was committed. Wojick was arrested in company with three other foreigners as he stepped off the train at Broadway Crossing in St. Louis. Constable Black went to St. Louis Monday evening and brought the four men back. They were taken before Mrs. Milch who identified Wojick as one of the robbers. Two of the other men were St. Louis musicians who had been furnishing the music for the wedding celebration at which the Sinciks were arrested. When arrested, the quartette had collectively $1,077 in their pockets. The Sinciks were known to Mrs. Milch they having occupied a part of the same house in which she and her family resided. They were masked with handkerchiefs over their faces at the time of committing the robbery, but in the struggle the handkerchiefs dropped down and this enabled Mrs. Milch to recognize them. Mrs. Milch told the officers the following story of the affair at the time she swore out warrants for the arrests: She went to the butcher shop in the morning and locked the door after her when she went out. When she returned the door was stilled locked. The Sinciks had obtained a key which fitted her door, and were waiting on the inside for her return. When she entered the men grabbed her by the throat and threw her to the floor. After binding and gagging her, they took the money and fled. The Sinciks, she said, knew she had a large sum of money with her because on different occasions they had borrowed small sums of money from she and her husband and knew where the money was kept.