Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — Confesses to Robbery of Pulaski Co. Treasury 46 Years Ago. [ARTICLE]

Confesses to Robbery of Pulaski Co. Treasury 46 Years Ago.

The mystery concerning the robbery of the Pulaski county treasury at Winamac forty-years ago, when SB,OOO in cash w r as taken, and which created * a big sensation at the time, has been cleared up by the confession of Andrew McCay, who has just died in the poor house at Omaha, Neb. According to McCay the robbery of -the Pulaski treasury was one of nine county treasuries robbed by himself and a pal in this locality. Dye Perry was Co. treasurer at the time of the burglary, and he was accused o>f the crime and arrested and placed in jail at Logansport, but was acquitted. Capt. John Farley, a former treasurer, waai also accused but likewise acquitted.