Robbed By Masked Men

Whiting, Ind., April 16.- Masked men made an attack oa and robbed ,T. fc. Van Sickle, agent of the Baltimore & Ohio railway, at the office here Tuesday nighc. ïhe Baltimore and Ohio depot stands about half a mile out of town in an uninhabited spot near Lake Michigan. At 11 o'clook Tuesday night, as Agent Van Sickle was about to lock the depot, ho was attacked and overpowered by three masked men. His 8-year-old son, Earl, was with him, and seoing his father helpless, the littlj fellow ran up the tracks to town to where the Standard OU company's night crew was switching cars. The crew returned with him to the depot and captured two of thu men as they were looting the office. The third escaped with Agent Van SicUle's overcoat and revolver. One hundred dollars was recovered froin the captured men.