Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1901 — John L. Turner Held Up. [ARTICLE]

John L. Turner Held Up.

john L. Turner the eccentric old bachelor, and tireless Adveutist tract shover from some miles south of town, met with the, now days, very common, experience of being held up in Chicago, Friday morning. He shipped a car load of household goods and horses, Thursday night, for his farm near Rocky Ford, Colorado. Friday morning he took the 4:30 a. m. train for Chicago. Arriving at the depot he was slow in getting out of the car and was the last man to get off the train. He was immediately surrounded by a number of Mayor Carter Harrison’s special friends, who tried or pretended to try to take Turner’s grip away. The old man hung on with a desperate grasp, as he always does to his property, real or personal, and 'the Harrisonians desisted and left. Mr. Turner then bethought himself of his pocket-book, which contained about S3O in money and SIOOO worth of notes. But the book was gone. He took a sad farewell to his S3O and rushed back here on the next train to notify the banks and stop the payment of the notes. He made a fresh start for Colorado at 3:27 p. m. Friday; and it is safe to say he will not be so deliberate in getting off a trAin in the capital of the “World of Graft” hereafter.