The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, May 27, 1909 ALVIN NICHOLS, aged twelve and THOMAS BRIGGS, aged fourteen years, were arrested at Knoxville, Wednesday, by detective J.M. Harrison for putting an obstruction on the railroad track near Knoxville, Monday evening, for the purpose of wrecking the Des Moines and Albia southbound passenger about nine o'clock. The engine and baggage car were derailed, and about three hundred passengers badly shaken up, but no one seriously injured. The boys will probably be placed in the reform school. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert July 21, 2005 iggy29@rnetinc.net