Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1909 — Who Is the Rensselaer Boy Who Was Held Up in Kankakee? [ARTICLE]

Who Is the Rensselaer Boy Who Was Held Up in Kankakee?

The Kankakee Evening Democrat of last Saturday contains the following article: A man, whose name is unknown to the police department, relapsed into a semi-conscious condition late yesterday afternoon within a few feet of the police station to where he was hurrying to make a complaint. He was seen to fall by Chief A. N. Gathany and picked up by the chief, taken to the police station and stimulants administered, but he didn't recover until this morning. At the station, he murmured incoherently of having been doped and robbed of his money. The police could not connect his statements at the time. The man was young, perhaps 22 or 23 years of age. He was’good looking and had none of the appearances of a drinker or dope fiend. This morning he claimed that in some unknown way a drug had been administered to him yesterday afternoon. It was given either while he was eating his meal or drinking. He vaguely remembered of being robbed of his money and walking to thfe station to make his complaint against the robbers. His home is in Rensselaer and he was Just going to send $lO of his money to his mother in that city, who is his only living relative.