Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1887 — A Horse stolen. [ARTICLE]

A Horse stolen.

On Monday night of last week a horse was stolen froth Elias Arnold of Barkley tp. The animal was described as a gelding, 4 years old next spring, 16 hands high, white hind foot, thin mane, weight about 1,300. A reward of $25 was offered for the recovery of the . horse and a like amount for the arrest and conviction of the thief. -The thief was thought to have gone northward with the horse and Sheri 11 Yeoman going in that direction, got track of a horse that was shipped to "Chicago from Kouts, which soemed to fully answer the description of the stolen animal and he accordingly followed it into the city, but found on arriving there that it was not the horse wanted. In the same way he afterwards followed ahorse to Momence 111., only to find that it belonged to a livery stable there.