Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1920 — MONON SLEEPER ROBBED; GUILTY MAN CAUGHT [ARTICLE]

MONON SLEEPER ROBBED; GUILTY MAN CAUGHT

George Doyle, 21 yean old, of Montreal, Quebec, is being held in the Tippecanoe county jail aMd probably will be charged with train robbery, as a result of the work of the Lafayette police, Detective John A. Hayes of the Monon railroad, arid Sheriff William W. Weinhardt. It is charged (and Doyle admits the charge) that he robbed at least three passengers in a sleeping car on the Monon railroad early Tuesday morning. Doyle and a companion known as “.Slim” boarded Monon passenger train No. 4 at Louisville Wednesday night. When the train arrived here Doyle got off. At Rensselaer some of the passengers discovered they had been robbed. Charles Moore, the conductor, sent word to 'Lafayette and gave a description of Doyle who was under suspicion.—-Lafayette JournaL