Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1899 — Horse Thieves Again. [ARTICLE]

Horse Thieves Again.

John W. Cavender, of Wheatfield postoffice was in town Wednesday afternoon, getting Sheriff Reed to assist him in recovering a good mare, supposed to have been stolen. She was taken from his pasture Tuesday night, and the person who took her also took a bridle from his stable. He followed the mare’s tracks a few miles southeastward and then lost it. The mare is a dark chestnut sorrel, with a star on forehead, about 16 hands high, and is about 9 years old. A liberal reward is offered for capture of thief and return of mare. Information should be sent to Sheriff Nate J. Reed at Rensselaer. It is possible that the party who took the mare may have ridden her a distance, and then turned her loose, as is sometimes done by Weary Willies and others who get tired of walking.