Payette County ID Archives News.....Payette Lad in Serious Troble November 27, 1903
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Payette Independent November 27, 1903
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Friday, November 27, 1903

PAYETTE LAD IN SERIOUS TROUBLE

Hal Helmick Arrested on Chare of Attempting to Wreck Passenger Train.

Hal Helmick, son of Henry Helmich, formerly of Payette but now of La Grande, 
Ore., was arrested in this city Monday night by Sheriff Watkins on a very 
serious charge and is now confined in the county jail at Caldwell, awaiting a 
hearing.  

The details of the affair received in Payette are meager but it seems that the 
young man, who is only about 20 years of age, is accused of having made an 
attempt about two weeks ago to wreck a night passenger train on the Short Line 
near Parma, by placing a heap or rock, cross ties and scrap iron on the track.  
Had it not been that the obstruction on the track was discovered and removed by 
section hands just before the train came along, a bad wreck would probably have 
been caused.

Nothing was made public about the attempt to wreck the train until the arrest 
of Helmick, which was caused, it is understood, by the fact that pinned to the 
top of the obstruction was a note of defiance, written on the back of an 
envelope bearing his address.  Whether or not the note was written by Helmick 
or placed there for the purpose of throwing suspicion on the accused remains to 
be seen.

It is not known what could have caused Helmick, if guilty, to have attempted 
such a horrible crime.


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