Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1904 — Boy Robbers at Crown Point [ARTICLE]

Boy Robbers at Crown Point

Two Remington Lads Mixed In The Trouble. A remarkable series of robberies in Crown Point and a still more remarkable one planned, alt came to an end, last Wednesday, when two young men, sons of prominent citizens were arrested They were Ray Knight and George Linton. Another boy Ben Wilson, has disappeared. The stores and safes of these boys’ {fathers, and various other places were robbed. Some days ago Linton and Knight were at Hammond and fell in with John Detrick and Harry Hawn, two Remington boys of about 17 or 18, who had left Rem inton on account of suspected complicity in chicken stea ing The four al l entered into a plot to blowup and rob the county treasurer’s office, at Crown Point Their plan was to rob a saloon, and with the money realized, buy dynamite enough toLEIow -up the treasurer’s office.

They separated on reaching Crown Point, and soon the two Remington boys were arrested as suspicious characters, and they to d of the plan to rub the county treasury; and thia led to the arrest of Knight and Linton, who freely confessed their ciimes and plans. The Remington boys were no farther involved than to have helped plan the robbery which was not committed, and at last accounts were being held on SIOO bo >ds as witnesses, or to turn over to the Remington authorities, if they wanted them for chicken stealing.