Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1902 — Bank Robbers Murder Boy at Westville. [ARTICLE]

Bank Robbers Murder Boy at Westville.

The town of Westville, in LaPorte county, on the Michigan City division of the Monon road, was the scene of a foul murder, early Monday morning. Robbers broke into the bank and store of E. S. Bmith, and killed a 16 year old boy named Wesley Reynolds, who selpt in the building, as watchman and guard of the bank. The boy shot at the robbers a number of times before he was killed, "and is believed to have wounded one of the robbers. After the shooting they fled, without robbing the bank. Two previous attempts hawe been made to rob the same bapk, one several years ago and another only last September.