Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1902 — Still Hope to Catch the Robbers. [ARTICLE]

Still Hope to Catch the Robbers.

Detective Smith, of the Pinkerton agency, who has been working on the Reynolds murder case at Westville, is now of the opinion that he has at last struck the trail of the bank clerk’s murderers. Smith spent several days of last week interviewing the train crews on the Pennsylvania road. In pushing his investigations he found a crew that had seen two men alight from a train at Hobart and three at Clark’s station at an early hour Sunday morning. The presumption is that the five were members of the gang that did the Westville job and that they separated in order that their apprehension would thus be made more difficult. It is the aim of the officers detailed in the hunt for the murderers to secure a description of the men seen at Hobart and Clarke’s station and if they tally with the descriptions of the men seen about Westville a few days’ prior to the murder every police officer in the United States will be supplied with a copy and inside of two months, the deteotives prediot, the guilty men will be in custody.