People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — A Thief with an Underground Railway. [ARTICLE]

A Thief with an Underground Railway.

Goshen, Ind., Oct. 18.—An important arrest was made at Baintertown Monday. Irwin Pieffley, charged with robbing the woolen mills of S2OO worth of goods. Pieffley was shipping the goods to Pennsylvania, but was caught and the goods identified. Goods have been missing froln time to time and it is thought that Pieffley has been carrying on an underground railway system for some time and has stolen hundreds of dollars' worth of goods, which have probably been shipped to some confederate ir Pennsylvania.