Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1912 — CROWN POINT BOY PERFORMS HOLDUPS [ARTICLE]

CROWN POINT BOY PERFORMS HOLDUPS

Graduate of High School Formed Bad Associations That Will Send Him To the Penitentiary. Lake County Star. The majority of our people were dumfounded last Monday morning to hear of another holdup, and capture* of the young man who is, by his own confessions, guilty of nearly all the recent holdups and robberies in this city. Frank McWayne, who had just passed the age of manhood, a graduate of our school, and was a promising young man—one whose parents have done all within their power to help and keep in the right path, gave away to bad company, and seems has almost, or quite, became a maniac on the lawless business he recently took up. His bold operations indicate that something has gone wrong—a great change in a short time. For some Ifime he has been a frequenter of gambling places, and when he worked made good wages. 1 He was so bold that he bought a revolver and flashlight in a hardware stqre in this place, and three holdups j charged to him were men he knew well —so well that he was mistrusted before the finale came for his downfall. It is surely a most pitiful case for the father and mother and brothers, and the sympathy of all are with them. While he has not been adjudged yet by the court, it is thought that he cannot get out of his trouble without a severe sentence, and it is believed the sacrifice of this young man will cause a shake up of the poker 1 rooms that will not be forgotten in some time. His entire gain by his operations will only total a comparative small amount, and the risk he ran would hardly have been taken by any thoroughly sane person. A hearing has not yet been given him.