Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — Horse Thief Made Cave a Rendezvous [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Horse Thief Made Cave a Rendezvous

PHILADELPHIA. —Prank Brown,the self-confessed horse thief, according to Captain of Detectives Souder, has stolen at least 100 horses. It was declared by the detectives that the young woman who was arrested with Brown and whom he calls his wife knows of many of the thefts. Captain Souder said that Brown would steal |the horses and then sell them, sometimes getting in exchange another horse, which he would also dispose of. In this way scores of horses have got ao mixed up that it will take Captain Couder some time to recover all the horses and have them returned to (their rightful owners. Captain Souder admitted that Brown had made a long confession and that a number of the horses had been recovered, bat that he was not yet prepared to give out a list of the owners of the animals. Souder asked ail those in Pennsylvania and New Jersey who had lost horses to communicate with him or call at the detective bureau at once, as they may have a chance to recover their property. It was learned for the first time that Brown and the woman who poses as his wife lived for a considerable time In a cave in the northeast section of

the city and that their whereabouts was only discovered by the illness of the woman. Detectives worked on the case for some time before they made this discovery. They said that several times they were almost on his heels, but that he would disappear as fast as a rabbit to its burrow. The detectives bad no idea at this time that the fellow had a cave and that it was practically surrounded with shrubbery. So thick. In fact, was the shrubbery that when he passed Into his cave it closed in around him in a way that rendered him for the time being safe from arrest. Brown had plenty of money and refuues to eat or allow the young woman arrested with him to partake of the meats supplied at the expense of the city. He orders their meals, which are of the best, and are always accompanied with many delicacies.