Chicago Daily News (Chicago, Illinois) September 9, 1932
GUNMEN TORTURE STORE MANAGER AFTER ROBBERY
 Three gunmen entered the Waller hardware store at 1415 Fullerton avenue last evening and after tying up and torturing the manager, Paul Thies, of 305 Cuttress place, Park Ridge, fled with $87.
 Thies and a clerk, Alfred Ohlendorf, 237 Linden avenue, Wilmette, were forced by the bandits into a rear room. There they surrendered the money. The three men were not satisfied and one of them bared Thies' back and cut him several times in an endeavor to make him tell where more money could be found.
 Two customers who entered the store at about the same time were put with the other prisoners in the rear and were also bound. Shortly after the trio departed Ohlendorf freed himself and notified the police.