Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1894 — A Boy’s Bad Break. [ARTICLE]

A Boy’s Bad Break.

There was quite a large siz d sensation io town Sunday morning. The everting previous, Jim Randle, the 17 year old son of one of onr wealthiest families., procured a horse and buggy at Cambe’s livery stable,

ostensibly to drive into the country to attend a dance. During the night the horse and buggy, without a driver, were found loose in the streets of town, and in the buggy was a derby hat, with two bullet holes through the brim, and near the holes a smear ol what looked like blood. The holes in the hat were not in such position as to indicate that the bullets had gone into the head of the weirer, still many people at fit st believed that the boy had been shot But when the milk train that evening arrived, Grant Warner, who was on the train, reported that he saw and spoke to young Randle, on the train just before it reached Hammond, he being in company with Clarence Sigler. It is evident that the boy had fixed up the bullet pierced hat, for the sake of creating a sensation. It looks like be was suffering from an overdose of the proverbial “yellow-back” literature.