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Show .WRECKING' MYSTERY . SOLVED Fifteen-Year-Old Lad Says He Attempted lo Derail Train Chicago, June 9. A train wrecking mystery ' lw'o rnonths ago was solved yesterday by. the confession" of Willi Osborne, a fifteen-year-old lad living ' near Griffith. Ind. He admitted ho . had attempted to derail tho train, out ; of revenge for tho burning of a stack , of hay belonging to his father, William : Osborne. j Three hundred passengers on a Chicago-bound vestibuled flyer wero saved from death or injury, when the I engineer of the New York limited on the Grand Trunk saw a tie on the l west-bound track just out of Griffith two months ag and notified the railroad rail-road officials at Griffith in time to save , the west-bound passenger train. The tie was found fastened ou the track and many tramps were arrested on suspicion' of intended robbery. 1 Mr. Osborne, a farmer living near the right-of-way, had lost a stack" of hay by fire from a Grand Trunk engine en-gine and the company had refused to Rfttle. for it. The boy had heard this discussed at home and doclded to : avenge his father's loss. I |