Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1904 — THIEF TAKERS TO EAT HORSE MEAT [ARTICLE]

THIEF TAKERS TO EAT HORSE MEAT

Novel Plans for Banquet of Horsethief Detective Association at Next Meeting. Logansport, Hid., Sept. B.—The National Horsethief Detective association, organized in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Michigan with a membership of 13,000, will hold its annual meeting In this city Nov. 3-4. It will be a delegate convention, 220 delegates being selected. The principal business will be adoption of plans to extend the organization Into other states. Action also will be taken toward securing legislation in the four states where there la already a considerable membership, making the punishment for horsestealing heavier and securing requisitions for captured thieves more readily. The association was organized in 1859 in Montgomery county and one man, John G. Swearington, Crawfordsville, survives, who was a charter member. There will be a mass-meet-ing and banquet at which horseflesh will be served.