Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1894 — A Horsethief Has Been Here. [ARTICLE]

A Horsethief Has Been Here.

HILDEBRAND’S HORSES AND BUGGY STOLEN. In spite of the unheard of low value of horses these good D’-cr-c t-s, cases of horse stealing still occur, when the thief can induce somebody else to hitch the horses up for him. Last Friday noon, for instance, a well dressed stranger applied at Hildebrand’s livery stable for ang to drive out to Matt Yeager’s place, in Milroy tp. He was a large man, well dressed, wore mustache, and having several warranty deeds sticking out of his pocket, Mr. Hildebrand sized him up as a land agent. It proved to be still worse, for he was a horse thief. The team was not brought back that day, which was not thought strange, as it is a long rough road out to Yeager’s. Nor yet was Mr. lildebrand uneasy because of the non-appearance of the rig, Saturday, thinking that the stranger was taking time to do up Yeager in a land deal. Sunday, Mr. Hildebrand went out to Yeager’s, but the stranger had not been seen or heard of in the locality. Nor could the slightest trace be found of which way he went It was a good team, a brown and a bay and a good single seat buggy. Monday morning Willis and Ben dcColly started out to see if they could get any trace of the rig. Willis went north and westward, and Ben went south and eastward. The first named returned Tuesday night and reported that he thought le bad found track of the rig, north of Shelby, and yesterday morning he and Mr. Hildebrand went north to follow up the supposed trail.