Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1914 — BLOODHOUNDS HERE; RAIN SPOILED TRACK [ARTICLE]

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Dogs From Paxton, DL, Brought Here to Put On Track of Burglars—One Arrest.

Hoping to secure a clew that would result in the apprehension of the bunglers who visited several homes Monday night, bloodhounds were brought here from Paxton, 111., arriving at about midnight Tuesday night. The very hard fain of that evening, however, had entirely obliterated the trail and nothing was accomplished. During Tuesday evening EHzur Sage saw a man whom he thought had followed him the night before the robbery and whom he suspieioned of being the man who had entered his house. Officers placed the man under arrest and searched and questioned him. He had nothing in his pockets but a dime and a plug of tobacco. The man was an employe of the motordrome and seemed to give a goqd account of his actions and having nothing more than circumstantial evidence he was released. ’ Officer Shesler thought this morning that he had another clew that might lead to arrests but nothing has developed so far. Special Officers Schofield and Hayes, of the Monop railroad, were in Rensselaer yesterday to look over the carnival crowd to see what suspicious characters they could find. They reported seeing no known criminals.