Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — COUNTRY FOLK SHOULD LOCK THEIR DOORS [ARTICLE]

COUNTRY FOLK SHOULD LOCK THEIR DOORS

Representative Will R. Wood and Lawrence Lyons, of Brook, republican chairman of the tenth congressional district, occupied the same room at the Severin hotel in Indianapolis Wednesday nifeht. When they awoke Thursday morning they discovered that they had been robbed. Mr. Lyons lost SBOO from his pocketbook and Mr. Wood states that he lost $5, the thief over looking a larger sum that was in his watch pocket. The two men failed to lock the door to their room when retiring.