Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1914 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns.—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. MULTI LATE D MONEY IN FIELD Picked Up by Farmer Boys Supposed to Be Part of That Stolen in Chalmers Bank Robbery. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 29.---Richard Thompson and Earl Plum, 14 and 16 years respectively, today found a quantity of paper currency stolen by yeggjuen who blew the safe in the State Bank of Chalmers on the night of Nov. 18 and carried away more than $3,000 in paper, gold and silver. The aggregate amount of money found by the boys is difficult to estimate owing to its mutilated condition, but there was a large roll of it. The bills were torn and scorched from the effects of the four explosions which tore the safe asunder and wrecked the interior of the bank building. Thompson and Plum have a line traps set on the Stacy farm, two miles north of Chalmers, and it was while the boys were visiting their' traps that theymade the discovery of the mutilated money, Passing through a cornfield about 120 rods west of the Chicago-Mo-non Railroad, they camo to a spot v. here tho robbers evidently had stopped to make a division of the loot. The torn bilks were scattered on the grotfnd, some of thefn loose and others in packages bound with rubber bands. • The boys hastened to town after gathering up every fragment of the currency and reported their discovery. The Burns Detective Agency has, for the past ten days, been working on the robbery and developments are coming so rapidly that it is believed the detectives will be able to make an arrest soon.