Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1909 — Presumed “Bad” Men Rode Blind Baggage. [ARTICLE]

Presumed “Bad” Men Rode Blind Baggage.

- The Monen agent at Cedar Lake telegraphed to Rensselaer Just before 11 o’clock Tuesday night to have officers here come to the depot and arrest four men who were riding the blind baggage of No. 3, due here at 11:05, and who were supposed to be “bad” men. An effort had been made to dislodge them at Cedar Lake, but they refused to leave the train. Officers Parks and Thomas and a number of volunteers went to the depot an<’ when the train pulled in the supposed dangerous men looked just as bad as the reputation which preceded them, but officers found no trouble in getting them off the train. They were taken to the jail and lodged for over night and given a little workout on the streets this morning." They were unarmed and two of them were known to the officers here, having sold fish on the streets here a time or two. They did not look a particle like a Sunday school class, but resembled a quartette of the bowery’s v?fcwt. They had a little money and got out of town on the 10:55 south bound train, one buying a ticket an<f the others resorting to the more exhllirating fresh air blind baggage.