Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1914 — BOYS PICK UP MONEY DROPPED BY YEGGMEN [ARTICLE]

BOYS PICK UP MONEY DROPPED BY YEGGMEN

Lads Bind Big Roll of Bills in a Cornfield, Mutilated by Explosion Wrecking Bank.

Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 29.—Rcihard Thompson and Earl Plum, 14 and 16 years, respectively, today found a quantity of Qaper currency stolen by yeggmen who blew the safe in the State Bank of Chalmers on the night of Nov. 18 and carried away more than $3,000 in paper, gold and silver. The amount of the money found by the boys is difficult to estimate, owing to its mutilated condition, but there was a large roll of it.. The torn bills were scattered oh the ground, some of them loose and others in packages bound with rubber bands.

The boys hastened to town after gathering up every fragment, of the currency and reported their discovery. The Burns Detective Agency has, for the past ten days* been working on the robbery and developments are so rapidly that it is believed the* detectives will be able to make an arrest soon.