Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1914 — Valuable Mare Missing and Mystery Surrounds Disappearance. [ARTICLE]

Valuable Mare Missing and Mystery Surrounds Disappearance.

A gray mare 6 years old and valued at about $l5O is missing from the farm occupied by Roy Donnelly, northeast of town. The disappearance is the more mysterious because it occurred in broad daylight. On Monday morning Roy fed the stock. He left the house at about 7 o’clock and the mare was in the pasture at that time At noon Mrs. Donnelly fed the stock, but she did pot notice whether the mare came up or not. At about 4 o’clock in the afternoon the mare was gone. A search was made to discover how she bad gotten out of the pasture but no way was disclosed. An advertisement was placed in The Republican but no response was received. Then it be gan to look as though the mare had been stolen. Sheriff Hoover was called into the case and he went to the farm and made a search about the fence enclosing the pasture but no means of escape for the animal was found. W. L. Wood, df Parr, volunteered the services of his Auto Wednesday and the country was scoured for a considerable distance but not a clew found that would lend any light to the disappearance of the mare. The mare was a valuable driving animal and Mrs. Donnelly won a prize in the ladies’ driving race at the 1912 horse Show with her. Every person should be on the lookout for the mare It hardly seems possible that she could have been taken in broad daylight, but she is gone and the mystery is one that should enlist the active interest of every person.