Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1911 — Funny Horse Thief Sent Up From Monticello Wednesday. [ARTICLE]

Funny Horse Thief Sent Up From Monticello Wednesday.

Monticello Democrat. forenoon a man named Yard, claiming to hail from Kokomo, rushed into the sheriff's office claiming that his horse and buggy had been stolen from the hitch rack on the south side of the square. At the sheriff's suggestion he went to the Lowe garage and procured an automobile and, with Sheriff Price, started in pursuit of the fugitive, who, he said, did not have more than twenty or thirty minutes start of them. They found that the fellow had stopped at Harvey Snyder’s, out near the range line, and inquired the way to Monticello. On being told that he was going in the wrong direction, he then stated that he wanted to go to Reynolds. They went on to that town, but failing to get track of him, they returned and went south on the rahge line road aud found that he had turned west on the road below the Ward school house. Some distance west on that road they found where he had turned into a field and unhitched the horse, leaving the buggy and harness. Coming back they found that lie had been seen riding north at a rapid pace and had abandoned the horse in the road neor M. B. Spencer's place and the animal had come on toward town. Everything was at last found except the thief and the reason for his strange actions. It is thought he was either drunk or crazy—possibly both. Later—A man giving the name of Alfred Prosser, and his home as Michigan City, was arrested* in Monticello and identified as the culprit. He was arraigned before Judge Wason Wednesday morning and given a sentence of 2 to 14 years in Jeffersonville Reformatory. He stated to the court that he was drunk and didn’t realize what he was doing. Asked where he got his whiskey, he said that it had been given to him by a man in Sheldon, 111.