Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1901 — ROSE LAWN CATTLE THIEVES. [ARTICLE]

ROSE LAWN CATTLE THIEVES.

S. G. Anderson, formerly of Rensselaer, now near Rose Lawn, Charlie Sprague, aged 19, and Mandel Ward, aged 15, also of near Rose Lawn, were arrested in Chicago last Saturday for the theft of 15 fat steers from Mrs. Hixon’s herd of cattle near Rose Lawn. They had driven the stolen cattle through to Chicago and the theft was discovered the next day after they were taken, and Chicago cattle buyers notified to be on the watch for them. When they arrived with the steers they were nabbed. Henderson escaped arrest for awhile by flight, and the boys put spurs to their horses and fled also, being pursued eight miles before finally captured. Henderson .wanted to lift a mortgage on his home, it is said, and conceived the idea of stealing the cattle and disposing of. them for that purpose, induceing the boys to assist him.