Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1859 — SUPPOSED HORSE-THIEF TAKEN. [ARTICLE]

SUPPOSED HORSE-THIEF TAKEN.

A young man who gave the name of Harding to some, Harter to others, and Parker to still others, pased through town on Monday afoot, leading a bay mare. His manner, and an evident desire to trade or selli the mare, excited the suspicion that she was stolen, and in about half an hour after he left town Messrs. Elisha Murphy, C. B. Barnes, D C. Walker and Titos. S. Peacock, stared in pursu.-it, overlook him in the Forks settlement, some four or five miles from town, and brought him back. It hud just rained before he lelt town, and his pur-suer-eusilv followed him by his tracks in the mud. They noticed this singularity in ihe tracks: whenever passing a»house begot I off and walked, and when out of sight ot 1 houses got on and rode. After being brought back the prisoner j stated that he had led the mare from Northi ern lowa, and that he was. on his way to I see his father in Wabash; but a memorandum iL'und in his possession showed that he hud been living about South Bend, in this State during the present summer. He was brought for trial on suspicion beforeuribsq. Howe, when the proceeding ß '■'■’ere quashed tor want of certainly in the The prisoner, on being set at liberty, immediately started on a run, and the iust that was seen of him he was entering the large corn field ol Mr. Bedford; jus j. east of town. The mare, which lie left in the possession of Win. S. Hopkins. E?q., his counsel, in pledge for his fees, and ’which tiie owner can have by proving property, is described as follows: She is a light bay mare, about fifteen and a half hands high, white face, three white feet, about ten or twelve y urs old, and considerably sway or hollow backed. There is a sore on her back as if made by the saddle. She is shod With very heavy shoes, and on each shoe is stamped the word “Comer,” or something like it. The man and mare came from the west here. 1