Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1909 — SWIPED TWO TENS AND GAVE ANOTHER’S NAME. [ARTICLE]

SWIPED TWO TENS AND GAVE ANOTHER’S NAME.

Rensselaer Young Man Flirting With the Penitentiary Is Saved By Brother’s Prompt Settlement. A young married man, well known in Rensselaer and of good parents, seems to be taking big chances with the penitentiary. Saturday night in company with another man he became intoxicated, and went to the other fellow’s room in the Fate hotel, where, it is alleged he rifled the other fellow’s pockets of S2O, and told the man he was robbing that he was “Curly” Thompson. When the man discovered that he had been robbed he went out in search of “Curly” and found him to be an entirely different person from the one who had accompanied him to his room. Investigation soon disclosed who the party was, and also that he had left town. His brother settled the matter by the payment of the money to the man that was robbed, but "Curly” Thompson seems to be the really injured person, as the story had been circulated that hie was the pickpocket. As "Curly” has a good reputation he was considerably put out at this attempt to tarnish his name.