Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1889 — Here's the Boss Horse Thief. [ARTICLE]

Here's the Boss Horse Thief.

Christopher Carter, aged sixty, completed a three year’s sentence in the New Hamphire State prison for horse stealing Friday, and upon being retewed was immediately re-arrested by a Worchester (Mass.) officer on a requisition for larceny of a team six years ago. Carter is said to bs one of the most notorious horse thieves in New England one of his exploits haying been the theft, transfer and sale of ail but three of a carload of horses in Vermont a few y«*rs ago. He has been in confinement for horse stealing almost constantly daring the last fifteen years.