Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1904 — A Noted Prisoner Here. [ARTICLE]

A Noted Prisoner Here.

Thomae Keefe, the supposed leader of the gang which robbed E. E. Hess’s jewelry and drug store at Brook lest September, was brought over here Fridav morning from Kentland by Sheriff John Wildsin of Newton County He will be kept in jail here until the March term of the Newton circuit court. Keefe was arrested at Crawfordsville some time ago, and at that time some of tne articles taken from the store at Bro< k were found on his person. J ust previous to his arrest at Crawfordsville he was confined in the jail at Indianapolis as a suspicious character, but was liberated for lack of evi denoe to convict him He is said to be of the most expert safe blowers in the business. Keefe is a young man, of perhaps 27 or 28 but is said to be one of the most noted burglars in the state. His arrest at Crawfordsville made quite a stir.