Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1912 — Man Who Robbed Monon Depots Arrested in Lafayette Sunday. [ARTICLE]

Man Who Robbed Monon Depots Arrested in Lafayette Sunday.

Fred Hix was arrested in Lafayette Sunday afternoon on the charge of having robbed six stations on railroads within a radius of forty miles of Lafayette in tlie past four months. Hix, after being sweated by the police, admitted that he was w paroled prisoner from the Jeffersonville Reformatory, having been sentence! from Crawfordsville a few years ago on a charge of grand larcecy. He is 26 years old and says his home is in Illinois. Recently the Monon railway stations f*t Lafayette, Battle Ground, Chalmers, Brookston and Crawfordsville have been entered and the (honey till robbed while the agent was absent. The Big Four station at Clarkshill, the Wabash at Westpoint and the Lake Erie & Western at . Hillsboro have also been robbed during the last four months and the local police and the railroad detectives have been working hard on the case. Nearly S6OO in cash has heel) taken from the cash drawers of the different stations: Three" men from Battle Ground Sunday afternoon identified Hix as the man they had noticed looking about the Battle Ground station the evening of the robtrery: