Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1915 — Crown Point Diamond Thief Who Escaped at Lafayette, Captured. [ARTICLE]

Crown Point Diamond Thief Who Escaped at Lafayette, Captured.

John Volker, the jewelry thief, who was arrested and sentenced to prison following a robbery ait Crown Point, later escaping from Sheriff Whitaker at Lafayette, while being taken to prison, has been captured in Syracuse, N. Y. Volker is being held by the Syracuse police awaiting extradition papers, and in the meantime he is nursing a bullet wound which he received while attempting, to escape after being arrested in a pawnshop with seven watches in his possession. Sheriff Whitaker, who had offered SSOO reward out of his own pocket arrived in the eastern city a few hours after the arrest of Volker. The Syracuse police did not know that a reward had been offered but since they beat Whitaker to the game by several hours, will receive the reward.