Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1910 — VICTIM OF GRAFT GAME. [ARTICLE]

VICTIM OF GRAFT GAME.

Mr. Laird, a stockman of Sheridan, Wyoming, was here Friday looking up the pedigree of the stallion formerly owned by Tom Martin. Mr. Laird was the victim of a neat skin g&me, engineered it js thought by some one

in this section. lie purchased the stallion of a horse dealer, who in turn had traded for him at Morocco. Mr. Laird paid something like SI,OOO for the horse, part cash and. part in notes, and received a pedigree showing that ■he animal was imported and registered, lie became suspicious ■ f the pedigree and protested the j. vnient of the notes until he could investigate and came here it r that purpose. As every horseman here knows the Martin stallion was a half breed Shire not eligible to registry. In some way unknown the swindler or swindlers got the pedigree of a horse that was owned by John Leobold and died while in his possesion and palmed it off as the genuine article on the Martin horse. Mr. Laird has his fighting blood up* and will try and make' things interesting for the swindlers,Brook Reporter.