Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1898 — Horses and Buggy Hone. [ARTICLE]

Horses and Buggy Hone.

Perry Hull, of Hanging Grove. Buys a Rig With a Bogus Cheek. James McDonald, of near McCoysburg, and largely a partner of A. McCoy, is shy a good team of horses, a set of harness and a new buggy. Tuesday morning one Perry Hull,.for a number of years a resident of Hanging Grove, was coming to town with his wife and Will Isley, with the understood purpose of closing up the purchase of Isley's farm. Also the farm of Fred Lines. On their way they met John Osborne, who also has a farm in Hanging Grove, and Hull quickly made a bargain for bis farm, also. Driving on they came to James McDonald's place, where Hull and wife got out, and told Isley to come to town, and they would soon follow him. Hull then bought McDonald’s team, harness and buggy, giving for the rig a check for $175, on McCoy’s bank. He represented that he had just deposited a draft here, for $15,000. Hull and his wife then left in McDonald’s rig, ostensibly to come to Rensselaer, but they never came. Some parties thought they saw them about 9 or 10 o’clock, near A. K. Yeoman’s place, near Pleasant Ridge, but don’t remember which way they were going. Hull and wife are both young people. He has lived in Hanging Grove a number of years, and never had any property, but a few months ago he married, in Michigan, and his wife was said to have great wealthMr. McDonald has sent out cards offering SSO reward for the capture of Hull and the outfit, or $25 for the outfit without Hull. The horses are good drivers, one a dark bay, nearly brown, the other bay with three white feet and a white forehead. They weigh about 950 each. The buggy is a new Indiauapolis Perry, single seated.