Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1903 — The Discovery. [ARTICLE]

The Discovery.

Henry F. Riechers, a school teacher at Pine, Lake County, Ind., from whom the Chicago police received their first clew to the whereabouts of the bandits, told of how lie recognized them. ‘I was on my way home from school Thursday when I saw three men coming out of a grocery store. They were carrying some groceries In their arms, and as they were strangers In the vicinity, this appeared strange to me. As I observed them more closely I saw that one of the men resembled a photograph of Van Dine I had seers in a newspaper. ‘I followed the men to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks and down the tracks for some distance. Then I returned to the town and wired to the chief of police in Chicago. I was convinced from the first that the three men were the men wanted. When the poJlce arrived I accompanied them to the tracks and Indicated to them the direction In which the men had gone. The police hoarded a hand car and went to the cave.”