Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1912 — Boy Was Burglar’s Pupil [ARTICLE]

Boy Was Burglar’s Pupil

New Orleans Police Bpoil His Dream of Easy Wealth by Putting Him in Cell. New Orleans;—Milford Lindsay, 18 years old, of Galveston, was a “frenzied financier" with a big get-rlch-quick bee in his bonnet, but tonight he is an inmate of a cell in the police station. Lindsay said he became the regular pupil of a burglar, with whom be was working on a commission basis, although it was understood he was to get all the iifoflts of his labors as soon as, his tutor graduated him. He and his alleged preceptor, who was put down in police records as "Casey Jones," were arrested as they were boarding a steamship for New York. “I was making sl2 a week," Milford told the police, "And I didn’t think that was enough. I had to have more, and when I fell in with 'Jones’ he showed me what looked like a very easy way of getting a big roll and having a good time." Together they robbed two houses in Galveston, according to the warrants, and young Lindsay’s companion, stealing $1,045 worth of Jewelry in one place and about SSOO in another. They pawned and. sold most of the stuff and bought steamship tickets for New York. Robert Wayne Mon tel, thirty-six years old, is the man arrested with young Lindsay, who met him in a furnished room house In Houston. According to the boy, Montel, who is known as "Casey Jones" because of his disposition to whistle that melody, told Lindsay he was a contractor la

the east and would take him there and put him to work in a “good, soft job” after they had "turned a few little tricks” in Galveston to get monq for the trip.