People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — TRAIN THIEVES ARRESTED. [ARTICLE]

TRAIN THIEVES ARRESTED.

Two of the Kessler Robbers Captured and Lodged in Jail—A Woman in the Case. Ligonier, Ind., Sept 28.—What promises to be an important clew in the Kessler train robbery was followed by the detectives until two arrests were made at Kendallville Tuesday. Eva Flint, a dining-room girl at the Kelly house, Kendallville, has been under surveillance for some time because of a stray hint dropped to another domestic. Sunday she was out all day with a detective, and it is said she gave the whole snap away, implicating John Connors, a well-known railroad foreman, who was arrested at Butler as soon as the officers could locate him. He is said to be the leader of the gang, which was made up of others in this part of the state, all of whom are now, being watched. There has been an unusual activity upon the part of the railroad officials and detectives for the past forty-eight hours and startling developments are expected.«