Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1916 — Sneak Thief Broke Into Stockton Home Tuesday Night. [ARTICLE]

Sneak Thief Broke Into Stockton Home Tuesday Night.

. Taking advantage of the absence of citixcnn from their homes Tuesday t night, when they were up town awaittlu- election returns, a sneak -i«<| the home of Mrs. Almira Stockton, on North 'Division street, by breaking in one of the 1 rear windows. Mrs. Stockton was 1 not at homo at the tifne, but Hope Hur'ey, who stays at the Stockton I home, was there and heard the noise I but did not go to investigate. Mrs. i Stockton returned in a short time. I The would-be thief vent out 7>F the ' front door. Nothing was taken, how- ■ over. On the same evening a horse belonging to Mrs.. Ei: Critter was taken from hd hom"* at the east side of town, but tho animal returned home later. Two men wore seen takI ing the horse by members of the Critser family. Now’ that election is over, let’s buy I that now suit and overcoat at Hil- , liard A HamilEfc—-