Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1911 — Watched for Monticello People And Had Easy Picking. [ARTICLE]

Watched for Monticello People And Had Easy Picking.

Pickpockets were busy at the Barnum & Bailey show at Logansport Wednesday and they seemed to pick Monticello people out as easy marks. The Monticello Democrat says: / If the Panhandle railroad company was not in league with the pickpockets at Logansport Wednesday the road’s lack of poor accommodations for its patrons at least contributed to the success of the light fingered gentry at the expense of a number of people. County Clerk Atkins was relieved of his pocketbook, a check and a number of papers. J. D. Timmons had his Pocketbook containing $39 lifted from the bottom of his trousers pocket. W. H. Henry lost his pocketbook and s3f and Thomas Harris, who lives on the Burns farm, Was touched for $25. Probably a number of others not reported were also robbed. The railroad's share in the deal was that they failed to hold the west bound train until the show was out, thus leaving a large number of people along the State Line division stranded in Logansport for the night. Several of those living in Monticello and vicinity took traction cars and came by way of Delphi, and it was while boarding the traction cars that the victims think they were robbed, although none of them noticed anvfhln<r suspicions untn they missed their valuables. It it reported that one man who said he had lost a large sap of money got off the ear at Clymers and went badk to Logansport to see if the thieves could not be apprehended. '