Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1912 — Finds Youth Dead on Train. [ARTICLE]

Finds Youth Dead on Train.

Lafayette, July 30. —While walking on his train north of Rensselaer, Brakeman H. M. Thompson of the Monon found Edwin B. Bowser lying lifeless in the bottom of a coal car. Bowser was eighteen years old and left Lafayette to beat his way on the freight train to Chicago. A big hole was found in his scalp and it is presumed that he was struck on the head by the end door of the car. He had been dead several hours when found.