Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1897 — Another Lap Robe Case. [ARTICLE]

Another Lap Robe Case.

Albert Ropp, who lives somewhere about Monon, is the party who, at the time of the Wolcott street fair, was married in public, as part of the show. He and his fair bride received a vast and varied assortment of articles as a reward for making their marriage a circus, but it seems as though lap robes and sleigh-bells were not included in the collection, and that Albert was left to look elsewhere for those articles. At all events, late Thursday evening, as Curtis Randle and Leonord Lefler, two [wideawake young men from out east, drove up to A. K. Yeoman’s place, east of Pleasant Ridge, they saw Ropp driving away from Yeoman s and in his buggy a robe which they thought was young Leflers which he had left at Yeoman’s. An investigation showed Lefler s robe missing, and the boys then took after Ropp, in their buggy. They followed him about three miles, on a dead run and overhauled him north of L. D. Marion’s place. Before they caught him he threw out Lefler’s robe and another which proved to be Mr.

Yeoman’s. When caught he still had a set of «leigh-bells and a whip, which were also identified as Mr. Yeoman’s property. He had a loaded Winchester in his buggy, but he made no demonstrations with it. He begging like a good fellow to be let off, even] offering the boys his horse and buggy, but they told him they wanted him and not his rig, and they brought him to Rensselaer where he was put in jail.