Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1916 — Kouts Man Has Pockets Picked at Hammond. [ARTICLE]

Kouts Man Has Pockets Picked at Hammond.

The return of the cooler weather has brought back to Hammond the army of pickpockets that evidently found the profession too strenuous during the hot wave. The vacation must have quickened ti e facilities for one of the dips Monday lifted three one hundred dollar bills, three fifties, a twenty and three tents from the pocket of John Kerns, of Kouts, Ind., as the stranger was waiting at the Erie station platform for a train. Absorbed in admiring the architecture of the magnificent Erie depot, Kerns was easy picking.

After hundreds of frmers of Wabash county had searched the surrounding couptry for several hours for Lena Busse, 14, the girl reappeared. She said she had been overpowered by a strange man early Sunday and locked in a comcrib.

Mrs. Laurel Rollings, of Indianapolis, who has been visiting her father, A. J, Biggs and other relatives here, went a) Chicago today to visit friends for a few days. Miss Marie Sieg, of Indianapolis, who is visiting in Chicago, will come here wth her to visit before returning to her home.