Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1920 — AUTO MYSTERY IN HOLDUP [ARTICLE]

AUTO MYSTERY IN HOLDUP

Stolen Car May Have Been "Planted” by Robbers on Track Near. Milwaukee. —— 1 Milwaukee, Wls., Dec. 20.—The fate of a stolen automobile wove its way Into'mystery surrounding the alleged robbery of a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul freight train at Him Grove, 12 miles west of here. The automobile was on a trestle just ahead of the point where the train was reported to have been robbed. It "is believed that the automobile which was stolen downtown here may have been "planted” on the trestle to insure that the train would stop after hitting it, and Insure the gang a chance to loot the car. Although reports ascribed to railroad employees state that the train crew was held up at the points of revolvers by bandits while others loaded the contents of a box car into a truck and drove away, no official report of the incident has been filed, according'to railroad officials.