Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1915 — Rensselaer Boys Rounded Up for Robbing Monon Freight Car. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Boys Rounded Up for Robbing Monon Freight Car.

Monon Detective John Hayes was here Thursday and rounded up some Rensselaer boys who had robbed the local south-bound freight car on the Monon Wednesday. Orville Bowser and Elzie Swim, aged about; 17 or 18 years, had jumped the train near the old depot Wednesday and rode down near the “match factory,” where the train was left, while the crew did some switching. They found a local freight car door open and entered the car and broke open a box of shoes consigned to Jacks Bros., of Lee. Each took a couple of pair of the shoes and later they gave one pair of them to “Bud” Norris. The theft was reported and Hayes came here and arrested Bowser and Swim Thursday night, and they were placed in jail. The two boys were arraigned before Squire Dean yesterday morning at which time Norris also appeared, wearing the shoes that had been given him. Each of the boys confessed to their part in the roSbery and said that this was the first time they had ever stolen anything. Squire Dean bound them over to the circuit court under S3OO bonds each. At this writing Norris and Swim are at liberty on bonds secured by their fathers, but Bowser is still in jail.