Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1912 — LOTS OF BOOZE AND FAST WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

LOTS OF BOOZE AND FAST WOMEN.

Two Rensselaer Lads Arrested at Mionon For Disorderly Conduct on Train and Fined $17.50. A little comedy drama enacted on a train yesterday between Lafayette and Monon, in which two Rensselaer lads figured prominently. In fact, they were the only male members of a hilarious troupe of four. The other two were of the gender. It could scarcely be said that they were of doubtful character, as they are notoriously known in Lafayette and other places. Their reputation is such that there is no room for any doubt to exist The two boys went to Medaryville Sunday to see their best girls and then went on to Lafayette, where the older fellow was well acquainted. How they employed their time until 4 o’clock Monday afternoon is of no consequence in this story, but at 4:10 o’clock in the afternoon these young men, accompanied by May Jolly, for-merly-May Steele, of this city, and a girl, supposed to have been Rose Cooper, boarded a train at Lafayette foT Monon. The entire party, it is alleged, had a goodly and more-than-all-sufficient supply of booze, both under and' outside their belts. They became very hilarious on the train and it is alleged that their actions became very odious to persons of more refined taste, When the train reached Monon the traincrew, which had grown disgusted with the obnoxious party, put them off and had the young men arrested. The women-of the party were sent back to Lafayette. A search was instituted on the Monon depot platform and in the presence of one or tw(x hundred townspeople the young men were relieved of their burden of booze (all thatvwas on the; outside). The boys paid their fine, which amounted to $17.50 in all and departed for their homes in a hired automobile. The Cooper and Jolly women, it will be remembered, came into notoriety several weeks’ ago, when the Retherford girl was killed in an automobile wreck about a mile east of town, having been members of the party in the machine that was wrecked.