Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1907 — BOLTED WITH A LIVERY RIG [ARTICLE]

BOLTED WITH A LIVERY RIG

Outfit Recovered and Man Jailed Here in Rensselaer. Wednesday morning the city and county officials here were requested by parties telephoning from Rose Lawn, to be on the lookout for a horse and buggy belonging to a livery stable at Kankakee, 111., and hired there Tuesday afternoon. That evening a man diove into Fair Oaks with such a rig and left it all night at Tom Maliatt’s livery stable. Ti?is morning he said he had been traveling in the rig for eight days and was tired out and wanted to sell the rig and go home to some place in Ohio on the train. He stated that some party -in Fair Oaks had offered him $25 for the outfit, he seemed not much to taking the offer. Mr. Mallatt doubled the offer, and the party said it was a sale. Tom then said his money was in a bank at Rensselaer and if the stranger would allow him $2 oft the fifty they would take the rig and drive down here and get the cash. That was agreed to and they got in to ward noon.- Mr. Mallatt got his money and paid over the S4B to the stranger, who gave his name as Gordon, and his home address as Dayton, Ohio. He was a rather large good looking well dressed man who weighed about 275 pounds. He was such a friendly gent that that he gave Mr. Marlatt his picture. The rig was placed in the Kiesler feed barn and not long after its arrival there Sheriff O’Connor dropped around and the ihoment he saw it, he believed it was the missing Kankakee outfit, and forbade its being taken away by Mr. Mallatt ~ In the meanti ma GneAaa, *l*o' had said he intended to leave for Ohio on the two o’clock train, had gone into Ray Wood’s barber shop and was there taken in charge by the Sheriff and Marshal Parks. He took his arrest very coolly, merely remarking that they had got hold of the wrong man. In the meantime the telephone had been kept busy and parties started from Mo mence in an automobile to identify the rig if it was the missing one; . The party in the automobile striven soon after 2 o’clock and consisted of C. W Magruder, a Kankakee liveryman, his brother A. M. Magruder, and Mr. Baker, a farmer of near Kankakee who owns the automobile in which the chase was made. They went first to the feed stable where they all at once identified the horse and outfit as the one Mr. Magruder was searching for. They next proceeded to the jail where Mr. Magruder as quickly and positively identified the man as the one who had hired his horse. He did not admit he was the right man, but agreed to go to Kankakee with the sheriff of that county, without a requisition, but still claimed it was his horse and that he had a right to sell it. After his identification by Mr. Magruder, he gave back to Mr. Mallatt his sis without a word of protest. The rig is one so easily and ac curately described that anyone could recognize it. It *is a single seat Stanhope buggy, the horse is a bay mare, weight about 1,000 and has white hind feet and a stripe in the lore head, and one hip slightly low. This description fitted the rig here exactly. The thief also is of easily recognizable description, being a large man with a smooth red faced, and well tho not finely dressed. He is beyond doubt the right man and has a term at Joliet in plain view. He gave his name to the Sheriff as Harry E. Gordon. He looks like might be about 30 or 35 years old. The big sale will continue to Saturday night, Aug. 31. * CHICAGO BARGAIN STORK