Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — A Remarkable Clue. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Clue.

A gang of horse-thieves were captured at Altoona, Pa., the other day, by the aid of a very extraordinary clue. The day before the capture they had robbed a grocery store and while ransacking the place one of the robbers took a bite of cheese. A shrewd policeman, noticing the peculiar teethmarks in the fragment of cheese from which the bite had been taken, afterwards spotted one James Feeney,whom he suspected of having had a hand in the robbery. He made Feeney’s acquaintance and by clever management made the fellow take a bite of some cheese he was himself eating. The teeth-marks were identical and the policeman nailed his man, who not only confessed his own guilt but named his confederates.