Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1907 — GORDON HAD A BAD RECORD [ARTICLE]

GORDON HAD A BAD RECORD

Sheriff O'Connor has just received a letter from Sheriff James B. Russell, ofKankakee county. 111., which relates that Harry Gordon, the horse thief, who was captured here several weeks ago when he had negotiated the sale of a stolen rig to Tom Mallet, of Fair Oaks, had plead guilty to the charge and been sentenced to the penitentiary for an indeterminate sentence of from 3 to 20 years. Since Gordon has been confined there his record has been searched quite extensively and seven cases of horse stealing have been tracted to him. One of these was at Lafayette, one at Urbana, Ohio, another at Independence, lowa, one at Davenport, lowa, and another at Aurora, 111., and this one from Kankakee. Parties from Davenport called on him at the Kankakee jail and he at first denied ever having been in Davenport, but later confessed to having stolen the rig they wire inquiring about and teld them where he sold it. Gordons’s capture was a very important one, and four states have been relieved of one of the worst horse thiefs that ever operated in them. Sheriff Russell stated that he would take Gordan to Joliet the latter part of this week. Vincent—Christian church, Oct 24th, 1907.