An official at Forney last night telephoned Chief of Police Arnold informing him that J.K. Brooks, residing alone on his farm between Forney and Kaufman, had been robbed of $2800. The circumstances in so far as they could be learned were as follows: Brooks yesterday came to Dallas and drew $2800 out of a bank, after which he started home on the Texas Trunk. Shortly after nightfall, as he sat alone in his house, it was entered by two masked men who knocked him in the head with a pistol and then robbed him of his money.

As soon as Brooks recovered his senses he went to Forney and communicated with the chief of police and Sheriff Cabell, asking the latter to send his dogs. Sheriff Cabell did not have any dogs to send, Commodore Miller having wiped out all the jail dogs, but the sheriff of Kaufman county went to the rescue with his dogs. It is supposed that the robbers followed Brooks from Dallas.