Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1920 — SLEEPER PASSENGER ROBBED [ARTICLE]

SLEEPER PASSENGER ROBBED

Losses Discovered When* Train Reached Rensselaer —Jug Thief. A young man 21 years old and giving his name as George Doyle of Montreal, Quebec, is in the Tippecanoe county jail charged with robbing at least three passengers in a sleeping car on Monon passenger train No. 4 early Thursday morning. Doyle and a companion boarded the train at Louisville. Some of the people robbed discovered their loss when the train reached Rensselaer and Doyle, who was suspected as the robber, having left the train at Lafayette, Conductor Charles Moore communicated with Monon Railroad Detective Hayes of that city, who learned that Doyle had taken a traction car to Indianapolis. Officers at Lebanon notified to arrest the man when The car reached that city, which was done. After his arrest, however, Doyle broke loose from the officers but was captured after a chase in which 50 or people people took part. Passengers on the sleeping car claimed to have lost $225 in money, a gold watch and chain, a pair of diamond cuff buttons, a pocket knife and a hand mirror. When searched by the Lebanon police Doyle haa $268.15 on his person and also the missing watch. He confessed a part in the robbery, but claimed to have secured but $165 in cash, and said the amount over that sum found on , him was his own money. He claimed that his partner pulled off the stunt and gave him the money, and said that he had never been in trouble before. He 'and his partner had started out' on a career of crime some two weeks previous. The latter has not been apprehended. The mbney and watch were not turned over by the Lebanon police with the prisoher, the Lafayette Journal says.