Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1914 — Jour Runaway Boys Stole Engine and Made Escape [ARTICLE]

Jour Runaway Boys Stole Engine and Made Escape

i Sedalia, Mo., Sept. 17.—Four boys, part of a group bf seven who escaped from the reform school at Booneville, (Mo., took possession of an engine in the yards of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad last night Though pursued by detectives onanother engine, the boys ran the locomotive beyond Pilot Grove, thirtyfive miles south of here, where they abandoned it A message to derail the' engine reached Pilot Grove too late to stop the runaways. Three-'Of the seven were captured, but the four locomotive riders are still free.