Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1901 — Boy Drowned. [ARTICLE]

Boy Drowned.

Robert Britalnger, an eleven y*fr old boy, waa drowned In the Tippecanoe Hear at the lower dam at Monticello, laat Friday evening. Unknown to hie parents be went awiming and hie absence waa not discovered until eupper time, when search wan made. About thia time aome boy* reported that they bad found hl* clothe* on the river bank at the dam and tbe river waa dragged, but the body waa not recovered until the next morning, when It waa discovered 10 feet from the shore in 6 feet of water. Aa Bar aa known the boy waa alone when bo met hia death, bnt lb la probable that other boya were with him, who, through fear, ar* afraid to admit the feet. The boy'a life waa Inaured for 9196. He waa a nephew of Peter Olver, of Henaselaer.