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The Daily Dispatch: February 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ediately set about to arrest the thieves, and early in the day of Saturday took into custody John Leathers, of notoriously bad character, who was locked up in the lower station house as one of the parties charged with the robbery. Upon further inquiries, it was ascertained that Leathers was in frequent companionship with a lame man named John Kearney, and accordingly, on Saturday night, a plan was set on foot to catch him. Proceeding to the house, in the upper end of the city, occupied by Leathers's family, the officers effected an entrance, when they found Kearney, who carried a crutch, occupying a room with Leathers's sister, and in a room above, another man, named George Finnacon, with whom was a woman who lived with John Leathers. Upon the persons of all these parties was found consJohn Leathers. Upon the persons of all these parties was found considerable sums of money; and in the case of Sarah Leathers, she had upwards of three hundred dollars tied around her person. --Believing that all of them were more or less implicated in the transactio