Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1916 — MONON CHECKING CLERK ARRESTED [ARTICLE]

MONON CHECKING CLERK ARRESTED

Earl Elliott of Lafayette Alleged to Have Robbed Road For the Past Two Years.'' Detective John A. Hayes, of the Monon railroad, has been making quite a round-up of dishonest employes recently and Tuesday at Lafayette caused the arrest of Earl Elliott, a checking clerk in the freight department . It is alleged that Elliotthad been systematically robbing the road for the past two years and the officers say they recovered merchandise valued at SSOO from Elliott’s room. Elliott admitted that he had been systematically stealing for the past two years. Among the things found in his room that had been stolen was a S2OO Grafanola and 100 records. Four quarts of whiskey, tobacco, cigarettes, roofing paint, all kinds of gloves, lanterns, carpet sweepers, tools and many other articles. The officers are of the opinthat some one else was implicated with Elliott in the thefts. He is 33 years of age and has a wife and seven children in Lafayette but it is said that he has not been living with them for some time.