Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1900 — Page 3

HOBO CRIME EXPERTS

MANY BANK ROBBERIES TRACED TO THIS CLASS. Are Known to Detectives Under the Kame of “Yeggmen”—Rival Other Burglars or Cracksmen in Fearlessness—Careless with Nitro Glycerin. “Once more ‘Topeka Joe,’ the notorious ‘hobo’ burglar and cracksman, is under arrest," said W. A. Pinkerton at his office in Chicago the other day. “The latest crime of this crook calls attention to the fact that the ‘hobo’ criminal is becoming pretty übiquitous, not only in the Chicago region, but everywhere else in the country- As an oper-

CHARACTER STUDY IN “YEGGMEN.”

ator he is getting to be more formldable and more to be dreaded than the gentleman burglar. “ ‘Topeka Joe’ has been in trouble before and has twice been behind prison bars. He is a perfect type of the ‘hobo’ safeblower. A few weeks ago he robbed a bank in Williamsburg, Va„ by blowing open the safes- Ttre other day only we succeeded in catching him away out in Portland, Ore., wh4re he Is uow under arrest awaiting extradition to Virginia. The appearance of large numbers,, of criminals from the tramp, class is a recent development. Six or seven years ago the modern ‘hobo’ expert was comparatively unknown In criminal circles. To-day

“YEGGMAN" PLIES HIS VOCATION.

be is committing the majority of bank robberies. Witbin the last few years there have been nearly two score of banks robbed in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and a few other Western Stales, and nearly every one of these crimes was convuitted by tramp operators. These ‘hobo’ criminals are called .‘yeggs’ or ‘Johnny Yeggmen.' “Other classes of tramps are called ‘cats' and ‘gay-cats.’ The ‘cat’ is the tramp who will do nothing but beg. He will not be connected with a crime except in a remote way, and there are probably great numbers of ‘cats’ who would have nothing whatever to do with any very great offense. The 'gay cat’ occupies a position midway between that of the ‘cat’ and the ‘yegg.’ He will take a hand in a robbery or a safe-blowing expedition if there seems to be no chances of his l>elng caught. If there seems to be any chance of his arrest he will have nothing to do with the project. But the yeggman Is made of entirely different material. As an exhibitor of a fearless or don’t-care spirit, or whatever you want to call It, he is entitled to the banner over all the burglars, thieves and cracksmen of the day. He will often on to bis project and try to get results even when the noise of the exploding safe lias brought citizens on the run to the scene. He doesn’t seem to be much of a rusher for safety. “Here the ‘hobo’ is a widely different citizen from the gentleman burglar and safe-blower. IJke the ‘gay cat,’ the first thing the latter looks out for Is his safety. He is about twice as careful as the yeggman in the matftr of not getting caught. The ‘hobo’ is extremely foolhardy not only In the way he stands his ground and opens fire on whoever disturbs hirer in his operations, but also in the reckless way in which he handles nltro-glycerln. All of his safeblowing is done with this sive. To get the stuff he steals > lot of dynamite, and with alcohol or warm water soaks out the glycerin. Aften the soaking is done the glycerin is poured off or the water drawn from the bottom of the receptacle with a syringe. ■Tha explosive is carried In a bottle or

a rubber fountain syringe bag. Thai« bar of soap, a few fulminating caps and a fuse complete the yeggman’s outfit. All of the cracks about the safe door, except an inch or two at the top, are closed with the soap, and with the same thing a little cup is made against the front safe with the unfilled bit of crack at the bottom. Into this cup glycerin Is poured. The liquid gradually seeps through the crack. After the ‘hobo’ has poured in all of the glycerin he is going to use he applies the fulminating cap and to it the fuse, while he retires to a safe distance to await the explosion. In his determination to secure ‘swag’ the yeggman has been known to resolutely stay by the exploded safe and commit murder rather than be driven off without a fight ~~ I Reckleav Work. “The man is equally reckless in han dilng the dangerous oil. Once a safe was blown open in the East. The perpetrator escaped without leaving the least trace behind him. Finally we landed the criminal several hundred miles away in another State. He was known as ‘Black Jack.’ 1 asked him I how on earth he managed to leave the ' country without leaving any telltale evidence behind. He told me that he rode eighty miles on the trucks of a Pullman sleeper. All of the time he had with him a quart bottle of nitroglycerin. Think of carrying a quart bottle of that stuff with you on the jolting trucks of a railroad train. One 1 little jolt might have caused it to explode, and the tramp and the whole car would have been blown to atoms. “Nearly all of these yeggmen go by nicknames and are seldom known by any other. Often the names indicate the city-or the State from which the i tramps were supposed to have come or igi na Uy. So me of Jthe lirgmlnent; ‘yeggs’ are ‘Frisco Slim,’ ‘Michigan < Red,’ ‘The Rambler,’ ‘Denver Harry,’ ‘Topeka Joe.’ ‘Warren Patty,’ ‘Macbn Tip,’ ‘Meridian Joe,’ ‘Silvers,’ Jack,’ ‘Baldy,’ ‘The Frog,’ ‘Wheeling Red,’ ‘Big Frank,’ ‘Janesville Tommy,’ ‘Zanesville Shorty,’ 'Squench,* ‘New York Slim,’ ‘Ohio Fatty,’ ‘Ohio Shorty,’ ‘Shenandoah Red,’ ‘Shenandoah Dan,’ ‘Bellaire Bob,’ ‘Yorker Dick,’ ‘Sleepy John,’ ‘Toronto Jimmy,’ ‘Syracuse Shorty,’ ‘The Turk,’ Frank,’ ‘Oakland Sammy,‘Brownie,’ ‘Alton 1 Whitey’ and ‘Montreal Connie.’ "In his attire the yeggman differs widely from tne gentleman criminal. ■

When the later is prosperous and has plenty of money he fives on the fat of the .laud and dresses in the most extravagant style. On the other hand, when the pockets of the yeggman are bulging with money he continues to dress like a mechanic in hard hick and never displays the least evidence of his wealth.”

Altitudinons.

I have accomplished right here in Denver more than Diogenes could do, lantern and all, in all his life. I have found an honest man. I was walking up Sixteenth street, near Curtis, ami asked a passer-by the time of day. He hastily looked at his watch and said: “Ten thirty." I thanked him and walked on. At Champa street I felt some one touch me on the shoulder. “I beg your pardon,” said the party who had given me the time. “Near Curtis street I told you it was half-past ten. I was mistaken; it was only ten tweu-ty-eight.” I stood open-mouthed, expecting to see a chariot of fire descend and take him up, Elisha-like, but he had disappeared in the throng of his dishonest fellow men.—Denver Times.

Speetacles for Horses.

It is asserted in Popular Science News that spectacles for horses are among recently patented inventions. The purpose is said to be not to Improve the sight, but by causing the ground in front to appear nearer than it really la, to induce the horse to take high steps. After a training with such spectacles. It Is averred,- the horse acquires and retains the habit of highstepping.

The Value of Speed.

“Who came out ahead in that street row between Blowty and Bluffly?" “Bluffly did, but he hod nearly half a block the start.”—Detroit Free Press. After a man -has spent an evening with very young people, he feels no further curiosity when he hears • crowd of young folks laugh.

MOVE TOWARD PEACE

RUSSO-AMERICAN COMPACT IS . EFFECTED. President and the Czar Stand Together and Oppose Powers* Proposition to Restrain Li-Hung-Chang—Report of Bi K Japanese Victory. “ ~ A Washington dispatch on Thursday declared that the United States and Russia have formed a compact for the settlement of the existing Chinese question. Tliis compact was concluded at the second meeting of the cabinet, which lasted from 8 till 5:30 p. ni. Wednesday. The cabinet bad been in session all day and the news became known after midnight. Russia, according to trustworthy though unofficial reports, has unreservedly placed herself by the side of the United States. The Czar consents to negotiate with Li-Hung-Chang as the representative of the Imperial .Government, and disclaims any desire to retain Chinese territory either as compensation or under the title of conquest. He offers to withdraw his troops, not aione from the capital, but from every district of China now occupied by them. In other words, Manchuria is not claimed by Russia as her province and is to be returned to China. That this coincides exactly, with the plans of our own government is apparent at a glance. Russia’s note means, therefore, that she is anxious for the restora: tion of tjje status quo as it existed prior to the Invasion, and ready to second the efforts of the United States in accomplishing that purpose. Her sole condition is said to be that there shall be practical unanimity among the allies in executing the disinterested and pacific program. The main features of the convention between Russia and America arc: FIRST—That, although accomplished by force of arms, the rescno of thn n-ln'atprn and foreign residents has been effected, for which purpose solely the allied armies seized the Chinese capital. SECOND—That Emperor Kwang Su Is the de facto and de Ju#e ruler of China. THIRD—That Ll-llung-Chaug Is the duly 'Recredited envoy for peace of the Chinese government. FOURTH—The powers are requested to co-op te with Li-Hung-Chang and his governibtpit for the restoration of order throughout the empire. FIFTH—That this restoration of order, and the status quo as to the open door and the arrangement of all proper indemnity, can be secured by the accredited envoys of all the- nations having grievances against China by reason of the recent outbreak. SIXTH—That the Integrity of the empire be preserved and that no territorial compensations be demanded.

BRESCI SENTENCED.

Slayer of King Humbert Given a Life Term in Prison. Gaetano Bresci, the assassin of Klag Humbert, was found guilty of murder at his trial in Milan, and was condemned

to imprisonment for life. Bresci escaped with life imprisonment, as that penalty is the most severe which can be imposed under the laws of Italy for murder, on which charge the anarchist was tried. It was at first believed he would be tried on the charge of treason, in which

ASSASSIN BRESCI

case the penalty would have been death. Bresei shot and killed King Humbert on July 29, nt Monza, Italy, where the king was spending the season at his summer palace. Humbert hnd just finished awarding prizes to the competitors in an athletic contest and was leaving th.i grounds in a carriage. Bresci approached and fired three shots at the king, wffs was killed instantly. The murderer was surrounded by the police and saved from immediate death nt the hands of the crowd. He had been a workman in a silk factory at Paterson, N. J.,'nnd sailed for Italy in May, leaving his wife and child In destitute circumstances in his home at Paterson.

DEFEAT OF BOXER FORCE.

Japanese Said to Have Killed 1,503 Near Pei-taang. Native runners brought information to Shanghai that a great battle was fought between the Japanese and the Boxers and Chinese near Pei-tsang. It was reported the fight took place on Thursday, and that 1,500 Chinese were killed, Prince Tuan among them, and that the enemy was driven back into the province of Uhi-Li.

The Comic side of The News

Yes, China quickly catches on To our great western plan; For see, thus early in the game. The Empress also ran. If trade is to follow the flag in China It would do well to take a gun with it. s Mr. Bryan is the boy orator no longer, and he has a bald spot on bis bead to prove it. , The public is now assured that Ix>rd Roberts is in no danger, but neither doea De wet appear to be. For a deep waterway to the gulf, If the Government will furnish the way Chicago will cheerfully supply the water. Minneapolis thinks* it is perfectly shameful the way the other cities are talking about the census enumerators. It is probable that the allies will be obliged to make a few hundred more good Chinamen before withdrawing from Pekin. The society of those have been operated on for appendicitis has not made a presidential nomination yet, though nearly every one else has been heard from. Mary Ellen Lease must have been liberal with the handouts when she was keeping house, for some of the tramps at Britt,-lowa, wanted to nominate her for President. People who think that prize fighters love to fight should take away the gate receipts and see. None of them is volunteering to go for sl3 a month where there la real fighting.

KILLED WHILE FEASTING.

Chinese Viceroy Invites 2,000 Boxers to a Banquet and Massacres Them. An intercepted letter written by the viceroy at Pao-Ting-Fu, wao commanded at Tien-tsin during the fighting there, says that the taotai of the city of TsangChow, on the canal, invited 2,000 Boxers to a least, and that while the Boxers Were eating and their weapons were stacked the imperial soldiers, by his orders, fell upon them and slaughtered all of them. The viceroy complains that the Boxers are overrunning the country southwest of Tien-tsin, particularly the cities on the grand canal, defying the officials, who at first countenanced them, and looting and killing the enemies of their organization and fighting the imperial troops. The gatescof Pao-Ting-Fu are kept closed and the people inside are suffering, the Boxers practically besieging the place. There is much recrimination between the foreigners besieged in Pekin and the members of the relieving force. Officers say that the besieged scut out alarmist reports and that the condition of the foreigners Was never one of such extremities as the official dispatches represented. The foreigners, they assert, could have resisted indefinitely. The besieged accuse the general of timidity and of exaggerating the Chinese opposition. They think a much smaller army might have made the march and relieved them much sooner. The looting of Pekin proceeds industriously and openly. The officers of every nation except the Americans ignore the repressive order, and all the allies ridicule the Americans for their abstention.

ANOTHER HUDSON BRIDGE.

It Will Cost $00,000,030 and Take Five Years to Build. Secretary Root has signed an official document approving the plans for the new $60,000,000 double-deck Hudson river bridge. This great public improvement, which has been iomr needed Lin the effort to rehabilitate the commerce of the port of New York, will preelude any fur-

NEW HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE.

ther delay. The structure will run from West New York across the Hudson. It will have six tracks for steam railroads on the main level and four trolley tracks, a roadway and pedestrian and cycle paths on the upper deck, constituting the most complete bridge structure ever planned. This bridge is a combination of the suspension and cantilever principles. The cost of construction is estimated at more than $1,000,000 per mile. This, of course, does not include the ornamentation of the boulevard and the carriage approaches and stairways for pedestrians and bicyclists, all of which an matters of detail to be considered later, »Ljd which may be elaborated according to the generosity of the city.

Few-Line Interviews.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has been making a study of the domestic and foreign demand for wheat this year, and in view of crop estimates which experts have made looks for rising prices. When asked for a statement of the crop pros-, pects and the probable prices of agricultural products during the present year, the Secretary said: “The outlook for good prices was never better. We have a shortage in the American wheat crop this year which will probably amount to 100,000,000 bushels. This alone would serve to make the present yield more valuable. There are additional reasons, however, which incline me to believe that wheat will make a marked advance before the end of the present year. 'l’he prima y cause for an advance is the condition and outlook of the home market. Our home market is and will continue to be the greatest wheat market imjhe world. This year the demand for the grdnt bulk o' our crop is at home. The consumption of •tpeat and wheat flour in this country in 1804 fell to 3.41 bushels per inhabitant. In 1896 it increased to 4.78, and ! .n 1898 it was 5.21. while last year it increased to 595 bushels per capita. This year the consumption of wheat per capiti will go abo r *e last year and probably will be nr-.rer seven than six bushels. E. M. Jackson of Chicago said to a Washington Post reporter: “The desire among young men to go west and grow up with the country is not so strong as it once was. In fact, western young men show a decided inclination to travel eastward. This is probably due to a belief that larger prizes are to he gained in the more thickly populated eastern States. New York City, with its supposed multitudinous opportunities for acquiring wealth and fame, offers especially strong temptation for ambitious western men who feel well equipped for the race. Chicago attracts men, it ; a true, from every part of the Union, bul. it lacks that fascination the eastern metropolis has." Baron Fava. Ital'an ambassador to the United States, sa/s of the new king: “King Victor Emmanuel HI. Is popular, eapecially iu Naples, his birthplace. His accession to the Vhrone will have the immediate effect of putting down any revolutionary spirit /hat may exist." Kenneth J. .iinsiey, rt'l’ittsburg seww pipe manufacturer, tolls of success in Mexico: “Th re is an opening for American capital there in many other lines. The Government encourages the investment of foreign capital, and property is as secure as anywhere in the States. We formerly 'manufactured sewer pipe In Pennsylv. nia and shipped it to Mexico, but we-*.ound it would l>e much more profitab' - to send American machinery there a.'.d erect a plant, and we now have « flourishing industry.”

COMMEPCIAL FINANCIAL

New York—There has been no change of importance in the business situation. No great amount of activity is ever expected in August for the reason that it is one of the “between seasons” months in trade, and this year there has been an added adverse influence iu the shape of political uncertainty. General trade is said to be somewhat better in the West, but signs of improvement in the New Englund States are still scarce. The most important factor in the situation just now is the better tone to the iron and steel markets. In this industry the buying movement is spreading in a number of directions. Considerable new business is being done in bars and prices are again showing an upward tendency. The sheet trade, too, is more animated and in better shape. There arc some encouraging features iu the speculative situationfeatures which in ordinary times would bring about a sharp advance in values. But at the moment these are entirely ignored and politics treated as the principal consideration. ■ The consequence of this is that the trading is on a limited scale and prices, as a rule, are barely holding their own. People evidently do not want to buy stacks, and, on the other hand, those who hold them are not disposed to soil. It is not believed this condition of affairs can continue much longer. Chicago—Wheat was generally firm during the week, although at the close Saturday the market price showed little change compared with its value at the end of the week previous. The causes of the improved feeling among speeulabased upon conditions rather expected than at ivesvnt existing. One quite tangible and present factor, however, was the export demand, which, although not to be characterized as urgent, was of dimensions sufficient to be recognized by the bears and restrain them from selling short to a degree that might result disastrously to themselves in case some of the other bull anticipations should suddenly be realized: The looked-for reduction in the winter wheat movement was not sufficiently apparent to beget confidence in its reaching within a short time a falling off that would be recognized as a sign of the predicted coming of the bulls’ days of< undisputed preponderance. Neither did anything in the movement of spring wheat toward the markets of Minneapolis and Duluth indicate the exceeding smallness of the Northwestern spring wheat crop, as generally claimed of it. The shipments of wheat to Europe from other than United Slates, Danubian and Argentine ports continue to run small; notably from Russia, whose competition in the markets of the world is always a menace tp the bulls. The Danubian countries promise to makii.amends to European consumers for any possible shortcomings on the part of Russia, the heavy movement to market in that region of tlie wheat-producing world being in accordance with what has been heard of the excellence of its wheat crop. The problem of the season’s supply is yet sufficiently obscure to warrant cautiousness as well by the bear as by the bull speculators. Favorable weather for the speedy maturing of the corn crop has had the double effect of causing farmers to part more freely witli their old corn and of inducing purchasers in the Eastern States and foreign countries to defer their orders for shipment to the last possible moment in expectation of an early’ movement of the new grain.

DIE IN A WRECK.

Thirteen Killed nnd Forty-five Injured on an Fxcnrsinti. Thirteen persons were cruslied to death and forty-live others were injured, some fatally, in a rear-end collision on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway at Hatfield. I’a. The first section of an Atlantic City excursion train, on which there arc supposed to have been in the neighborhood of 500 persons, plowed its way through a milk train which was being loaded for Philadelphia. Of the five cars on the latter train three* were reduced to kindling wood and bent iron. The next car was smashed beyond repair, while the forward car nnd the engine practically escaped injury. The engine on the Atlantic City cx<nrsion section Was totally wrecked, thrown across the north-bound track, with the pilot pointing in the direction from which it had come. The first two cars of eleven composing the excursion train were splintered nnd several following were wrecked. The track was torn up for a quarter of n mile and the wreckage was piled up by the force of the collision to a height of twenty feet nnd extended for several hundred yards south of the station. The wreck is one of the worst with which the railroad has find to contend with in years. Instructions disobeyed seem to have caused the disaster.

Sparks from the Wires.

Japan, has placed heavy orders in Shin Francisco for salmon, to feed >ts army. In recent-floods in the vicinity of Yokohama, Japan, 200 persons wore drowned. Six hundred prospectors returned from Cape Nome with stories of destitution and illness there. Two Kentucky train robbers were sentenced. one to four, the other to ten j ears’ imprisonment. Poison was found in the stomach of Edward P. Herrick, the nged Chicago merchant, who died suddenly. The Japanese Government has given permission to the United States to establish a hospital on Japanese territory. On the ere of his wedding Michael Ilomynk accidentally shot nnd killed himself at Wallingford. Conn. Michael Drumm of Oswego. N. Y.. was reported dead. Later he appeared nnd threatened to sue the newspapers. E. J. Fee; an electrician, Omaha, Neb., was killed by three laborers in ■« row over who should pay for n can of beer. Public :nnd in northern New Mexico was withdrawn from sale, in order to save the cliff dwellings from destruction. A Chicago wall paper mnn committed suicide in order that his Wife and children might receive bls *2,000 Insuraneo.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Trouble in a County Institution at Terre Haute—Mammoth Woman to Marry—Reunion of Benbow Family at Muncie—TrageJy in a Cemetery. In Terre Haute the twenty orphan children the county was boarding with a Mrs. McKenzie have been taken from her and placed iu homes. Charges are now made of extreme cruelty of the children by Matron McKenzie. One of the charges is that Mrs. McKenzie lowered a child .into a well as punishment; another that she made the children sleep on the floor to save washing the bed 'clothing. Mrs. McKenzie says that she threatened to lower children into the well as a means of preventing lhem playing around the opening of the well. She also says the children slept on comforts on the floor, but they did this of their own wish in the warm weather. Frlde-to-Be Weighs 350. Miss Lucy Havens, an inmate of the county asylum at LaPorte, owes her success in winning a husband to her great weight. . Miss Havens tips the scales at 350 pounds and is steadily growing heavier. Dr. O. J. Detter of Union City wishes to place her on exhibition as the heaviest Woman in the State, if not in the world, and he has placed a proposition of marriage in the hands of the county board. He offers to execute a bond that the woman shall not again become a county charge. Benbow Family in Rennion. There were 156 of the 212 members of tile Benhow family present at the annual reunion in Muncie, representing all parts of the United States. A feature was a report fretn Hie committee laoki-ng up a $1,000,000 estate supposed to be due the descendants in Wales. I’he following officers were elected: President, Frank Benbow, Muncie: vice-president. Mrs. John Stober, Vining, Kan.; recording secretary, Minnie Benltow, Muncie; treasurer, H. Benbow, Muncie. Suicide on Wife’s Grave. Versailles William von Ijoenitz, an aged widower, went to Cliff Hill cemetery at Osgood, knelt down by his wife’s grave, swallowed poison and then blew his head off with a pistol. He had been fined for assaulting Seth Johnson. State News in Brief. Utica has a ghost sensation. Human skeleton found iu a Muncie gravel pit. Plainfield is now talking with the wide, wide world by 'phone. Eleven sheep on one farm sear Laporte were killed by lightning. Oliver Thornburg, farmer near Dublin, lias purchased au automobile. James Christy, Shelbyville, narrowly escaped being gored to death by a bull. In the vicinity of Plymouth $6,000 worth qf pickles were raised this season. John and Sarah Reep, Vincennes, celebrated their fifty-seventh wedding anniversary. Cornelius Dilley died at his home near Sullivan. He taught school for fortyfive years. C. E. Green, Crawfordsville, found a pearl, which he thinks is worth S2OO, in Sugar creek. Mrs. Mary Rank, Allen County, 109, born in England, remembers the battle of Waterloo. < The corner stone for a Christian church was laid at Strop, the new cement town, in La Grange County. Prof. A. B. Porter and wife went from Chicago to Richmond by automobile in three days and a half. Frank Ambrose, an Evansville bookkeeper, walked from a second-story window i.) his sleep, receiving fatal injuries. Mrs. Samuel Thomas, living near Daleville, found Charles Smith, colored, at her hen roost and filled him full of shot. A slate thrown into a tree to dislodge u hat, utruck the 3-year-old child of William Terry, near Kokomo, almost severing its head. Thi'eves entered the house of George Grahs, Union City. They broke a window with an ax, in full view, and ratcured SSO. After ten years’ effort Central Union Telephone Company gets exchange in Laporte by buying out the local company and toll lines to several towns. Dr. J. W. Clokey, pastor of the Fiist Presbyterian Church. New Albany, one of the most fashionable churches in the city, welcomes male shirt waists in church. Messrs. Rogers and Kaupke hare struck a flowing oil well near San Pierre. The oil was found at a depth of 135 feet 6 inches in oil rock, and the flow’ is strong and steady. Edward Huffman, the 5 year-old son of William Huffman of Brazil, fell over the dashboard while riding with bis mother and was trampled to death before he could be rescued. When Miss Carrie Pears of Mentone was about to retire she discovered a large snake coiled in the middle of her bed. Before she could summon assistance it escaped through an open window. Miss Etta Horner, 14 years old, of Radnor, is dead, the result of eating a pint of prepared mustard. The girl had a craving appetite for the preparation and ate it over the protest of her parents. John Locke, in jail at Anderson on the charge of infanticide, asked a prisoner, who was released, to buy ten cents’ worth of morphine for him to relieve pains. It is thought he meant to kill himself. The man liecame suspicious and did not b-.iy the drug. ; Sam Sanders, arrested in Christian County, Illinois, Confessed he is from Indiana and is a member of an organized gang of thieves that has stolen fifty horses in the last few months, marketing them in Terre Haute. He confessed nho that members of the gang are responsible for fires. Thomas O’Fazzio, Logansport Italian}, went to an island in the Wnbash rivet 4 , with another man, who forced him to land and then went back to shore and took the Itnlian’n coat and $5. o’Fhmlo spent the tliy on the island, shouting for assistance