Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1918 — HALSTEAD IDENTIFIES PHOTOS [ARTICLE]

HALSTEAD IDENTIFIES PHOTOS

Jerry Kinney, captain of detectives, has received word that David Halstead, farmer and stock buyer at Rensselaer, Indiana, who was swindled out of approximately SII,OOO recently by two confidence game workers, has identified photographs held by the Chicago police of Edward Burns and Joseph Furey, members of a widely known "con’’ gang, as the men who defrauded him. Burns and Furey are said to have police records dating back more than twenty years and pre said to be wanted in several large cities on similar charges.—lndianapolis News,