Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1920 — NEGROES ARRESTED BY ST. JOHN POSSE [ARTICLE]

NEGROES ARRESTED BY ST. JOHN POSSE

St. John, Ind., April 19.—Three Negroes', whd Tate - SatUfday night entered the store A of Petrie* Sons, hardware merchants, at Lowell, and stole Liberty bonds amounting to $475 and a of knives and other hardware, were captured this morning by a posse of farmers in the woods back of the Monon station at St. John. They were takeu to the county jail at Crown Point, where according to Sheriff Barnes, the' men partly confessed to the Lowell robbery. They are held on an open charge pending the uncovering of further evidence. The Negroes, it is said, camped last night at Farmdale, a milk station on the Monon railroad midway between Lowell and Cedar Lake, they destroyed a milk can belonging to a fanner named Kline, who, coming upon the men when he arrived at .the station this morning with his supply of milk, had ah altercation with the Negroes and they fled. Boarding a freight train they rode as far as St. John. There a _ posse had been gathered after Kline phoned the station agent at St John. As the Negroes leaped from the train they made a dash for the woods and were immediately surrounded. They gave themselves up without offering to fight Sheriff Barnes believes the men are from Chicago. Charges of robbery will be preferred against thenr.