The Pontiac Press • September 11, 1963

City man robbed by Pair with knife


Two young men rob the Pontiac man at knifepoint last night while he was walking on rayburn near the grand trunk railroad tracks. Lee Perkins, 43, a 404 Elm St. told police he was on his way home from a store at 8:25 PM when the youths came up behind him and pressed a knife in his side. They took a bank envelope containing $88.00 from his inside coat pocket and fled on foot toward the railroad tracks he said.