Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1909 — IN THE TOILS AGAIN. [ARTICLE]

IN THE TOILS AGAIN.

Rensselaer Boy Gets In Trouble In Indianapolis This Week. A young man who has figured in a number of crooked deals in Rensselaer and who would now be spending his time in the state reformatory had it not been for the sympathy for his parents, has gone wrong again and is now lodged in the police station in Indianapolis for the theft of an overcoat and revolver belonging to Perry Horton, 'son of Dr. J. W. Horton of this city, who is attending a business college at that place. Under the guise of friendship he came a number or times to call on Perry and then learned at just what hours he would be in school, and selecting a time he knew Perry would be out, he entered his room and took a $35 overcoat and a hammerless revolver. Perry reported his loss to a, detective who traced the overcoat to a downtown pawnbroker and he, under threat of arrest, gave a description of the thief.

The boy when arrested confessed and turned over the pawn ticket for the overcoat but claimed to have lost the revolver ticket and now refuses to disclose the name of the man to whom it was sold. His parents here were notified and they arranged for brother-in-law at «Celphl to redeem the stolen goods land extricate . if possible the boy.