Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1907 — KENTLAND HORSETHIEF IS HERE. [ARTICLE]

KENTLAND HORSETHIEF IS HERE.

Brought Over Tuesday Morning and Confined In Jasper County Jail. The reward of $l5O offered by Newton county people for the arrest of the horsethief who has been stealing so many horses at Goodland and Kentland of late, prompted the Illinois officers to turn the thief, Frank Didie, who was arrested at Paris, 111., last week with five stolen horses in his possession, over to the Newton county sheriff. _v Newton county having no jail) Sheriff Stoner brought Didle over here Tuesday morning and he is now in Jasper county’s jail where he will remain until the October term of the Newton circuit court, when he will likely get the full penalty for his crime, which is imprisonment for from one to 14 years and a fine not exceeding double the amount of the value of the stolen property, etc. Sheriff Stoner while here took Fred Ellis, the Brook insane man, to the asylum Tuesday, deputy sheriff Joe O'Connor accompanying the sheriff to Longcliff.