Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1912 — Boy Tries to Burn Jail. [ARTICLE]

Boy Tries to Burn Jail.

Hammond, Dec. 26.—Eighteen-year-old Frank Graves, leader of a bandit gang, in jail for holding up a West Hammond merchant, tried to burn the Hammond jail by pouring kerosense, used for killing insects, on the floor and lighting it The blaze was discovered in time. Graves then was taken to the West Hammond jail and on the way some one slipped him* a saw, with which he began work on the bars. He was taken to Chicago under heavy guard.