Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1859 — HOKSE-THIEF ARRESTED. [ARTICLE]

HOKSE-THIEF ARRESTED.

A one-artned m in, calling himself Joseph A. Miller, was arrested in town last T mrsday evening, on suspicion of being a horsethief. It 6eeins *hat early on Thursday morning he concealed a horse in the timber near the residen e of Mr. Hammond, in Barkley township. The horse broke loose and went to the stable of Mr. Hammond. He had on a hickory bridle and no saddle. This, ini connection with the fact that’Miller did not appear very energetic in hunting the horse after he broke loose, led to the suspicion that he was stolen, and the people In that neighborhood determined to investigate the matter. They turned out in the afternoon to hunt Miller, and overtook him in the evening at this place. Alter his arrest Miller said that he saw the horse on the prairie five miles east of Frnnceev’ille, and b told that h,e was a stray horse: and as 9 friend of his living east ot Rochester h >d lost a horse about a year ago, he thought this was the game horse, and so he took him, intending to ride him to Momence, 111., and then back to Rochester to give him up to his owner. Messrs. John McCurtain and Silas Stockton took Jlilier and the horse on Friday to VVinnemac, and found the owner of the horse, living six miles- east of' that place. Miller was sent to jail to await his trial, which is set for to-day, in the Common Pleas Court. „