Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1909 — THREE-YEAR-OLD BOY TAKES TRAIN TRIP. [ARTICLE]

THREE-YEAR-OLD BOY TAKES TRAIN TRIP.

Emmet Robinson Climbs On End of Milk Train and z ls Carried to Monon Monday Evening. Rensselaer can lay claim to the youngest boy that ever stole a ride on a railroad train. It is Emmet Robinson, the 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs/ James Robinson, who moved here only about ten days ago from Monon. Little Emmet, who dresses in kilts, was out walong Monday afternoon with his older brother, and the latter had stopped near his father’s restaurant, which is the former Simpson restaurant near the depot. The older boy did not pay any attention to his brother, presuming that he had gone into the restaurant and the parents did not think anything about the little fellow, thinking that he was with his .brother. Emmet went over on the depot platform and when the evening milk train stopped he climbed up on the steps of the back coach .unobserved and entered the car and seated himself. The other passengers got off and on further up the tftain and little Emmett was not discovered until the conductor went through the train, just after it passed out of the siding where it had stopped a few minutes to let the north bound train go by. The conductor saw that the little chap *. was not accompanied by any grown person and undertook an interview. He asked the little one whose boy he was and the response came, 'Tm papa’s boy.” Later he said that he was mama’s boy and that he was going home. Several traveling men and other passengers began to take an Interest in the matter and Emmet was plied with so many questions that he could not answer them, but he would not tell his name. After a time, Dr. Hannson, the veterinary, who ■was returning to Monon, saw the boy and asked him if his name was Robinson. He said it was and Dr. Hannson Boon decided that it was Jimmie Robinson's boy. He asked Alf Lowman, the Pleasant Ridge agent, to telephone here about the boy and the message came just in time to relieve the parents, who had instituted a search for their offspring, ’7 Dr. Hannson took the chap to his home in Monon and kept him over night and brought him back here this morning, and the parents were mighty glad to get their baby boy back home again. He will have to be watched with an eagle eye to prevent his getting seriously injured by the trains.