Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1910 — Rensselaer Man Charged With Theft of Overcoat Was Intoxicated. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Man Charged With Theft of Overcoat Was Intoxicated.

A Rensselaer married man of good reputation was arrested in Hammond, where he is employed, and brought to Rensselaer Monday, to answer to a charge of stealing an overcoat belonging to Rudolph Kratz, of Chicago. Kratz was a passenger on the milk train Saturday evening, going from Chicago to Lafayette. He had hung his overcoat on the rack. The Rensselaer man was also a passenger on the train and when he left the train here he took the overcoat. The man to whom it belonged soon discovered that it was missing and reported it to the conductor and the case was placed in the hands of the railroad detectives. They found out who the party was who had left the train here and Detective Healy, of Hammond, accompanied by Marshal Mustard, went to his home. He had returned to Hammond, blit the officers were given the coat by the man’s wife. The officers then went to Hammond and placed the man under arrest. He was returned to Rensselaer, where he put up a cash bail of $l5O. He admitted having taken the coat, stating that he was intoxicated and as he had been in the habit of carrying his own overcoat he thought it was his own. He said that he had not taken the coat back to the station in an effort to find out to whom it belonged. That he was intoxicated there seems no doubt, as another Rensselaer party saw him in that condition Saturday afternoon. His case will probably be tried In a few days.