Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1901 — It Was Kuhns, All Right. [ARTICLE]

It Was Kuhns, All Right.

Marvin Kuhns, the horsethief, murderer and general desperado, after enjoying a vacation of two months, is again confined in the prison at Columbus, Ohio. Kuhns’ arrest last Thursday night by several members of a hcree theif detective association, at Green Hill near Otterbeinj to which place be had been followed, after having stolen a team at Plvmouth, has already been related. For two ■or three days it was considered doubtful whether or not the fellow captured was Kuhns, and the apparently easy manner in which he was taken Jed many to believe that he was not the noted desperado. But he proved to be the escaped convict and was taken back to Columbus, Saturday, by officials from that city As soon as Kuhns arrived at the penitentiary he told his story. He said that after escaping from that institution on Thanksgiving day be went directly to his home in Noble county, this state. He insisted that he had not been outside of Noble county since he arrived there, until a week ago, when he started out with two companions to St. Louis, where he proposed to sell the team of horses he bad stolen at Plymouth and make his escape to the Pacific coast, said he was sorry that he had to go back to the penitentiary, but added that it made him sore “to think that I bad to be caught by a lot of rubes, farmers who wore straw hats and carried pitch forks.” “To think after walking abroad in Noble county for nearly two months and not an officer brave enough to take me I should be rounded up by a lot of jays! ‘Pon my soul, I’d rather have walked into Lafayette and surrendered than have permitted those farmers to capture me. They wouldn’t have got me, either, if I had had any idea that I was being pursued. I laid my guns aside for the first time in seven weeks, and couldn’t get hold of them quick enough. If I could have reached my guns in time when they burst into the room I wouldn’t be here today,’’ The crime that led to his incarceration at Columbus was the murder of William Campau, his pal, at Fostoria, 0., on November 19,1890. He has a life sentence. A reward of $250 was offered for his recapture.