Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1910 — Young Horse Thief. [ARTICLE]

Young Horse Thief.

Suffolk, Va. —Ralph Hezekiah Hinton, nine years old, possibly the youngest, horse thief ever convicted, was found guilty in Justice Deberry’s court on the seednd offense. Owing to his youth there was no prosecution for the first horse stolen, but when he disappeared with Thomas Smith’s horse he was pursued and captured after a four-mlle chase by Hurricane Branch and a posse.