Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — Youth Rode Bumpers on Monon—Head is Crushed. [ARTICLE]

Youth Rode Bumpers on Monon—Head is Crushed.

When a Monon baggage and mail car were uncoupled at the Union station early Friday morning the dead body of Albert Sowders, 17 years old„ son of Wm. Souders, No. 150 North Alabama street, was found by a railroad employe. The head was crushed. It is not known how long Sowders had been dead. The young man wds going frpm Chicago to Indianaplis and was riding the vestibule “bumpers.” He left home about a week ago telling members of his family that he was going to Chicago “to see the town.” The young man’s father received a letter from his son saying that he would be home some time Friday.