The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-02-24 00:00:00

CAPTURE OF HORSE STRALERS AT
Dom; H ESTER.

A otzvss CAPTOR of horse stealers was effected in
this town on Friday. The missing •nienal, a roan bore.,
between three and four ytare old, relive! at 70 guineas,
was stolen last week from the stable of Mr. Cornelius
Riley, a gentleman farmer, of Ne w bridge, Yardley, about
four miles from Birmingham. The bores was missed on
Wednesday, when it wts trseed to Birmingham, and the
result of enquiries wee the discovery that a horse
aeseering ib.. description of the stol-n animal had been
booked for Bristol is the name of Piper Mr. Rdey
proceeded to Bristol, and ascertained that two men and
a roan horse had aerie •.I titers on Tumnlity, and had
efterwards loft in the direction of Bib. Ti,. thieves
bed by this time 36 hours start of their pursuer. To.
Bristol pollee suspected they had made their way through
Bath and Fr me, ec route for Dorch fair, and re-
eommended Mr. tiodi to go on to Fromm and give
itformation to Mr. suet, Deegan. Treeing the &lam.'
in the direction of ',come, Er. Riley on Feeley at noon
consulted Mr. Deggan respecting the robbery. Teat
oflieer immedietely jumped upon his hone, and made
enquit lee at several of the outlying poblic-ho tees on the
Bath side of the town. Ills energy wee rewarded by the
disoevery that a valuable roan horse and two men had
stopped it one of the inns foreman hours on Wednesday,
Mr. Dodgers wee infonned by Mr. tilt them the station-
master, that by the 8.35 train on Wednesday evening a
horse had basin booked to Dorehester, in the name of
Green. By the 3.30 p su. traits on Friday Mr. Deggen
sod Mr. Riley proceeded to Dorchester, and, having
obtained the sesisiamie of the Dorset County Con-
stabulary, at onoe visited several of the hostelries of the
town. After calling at several of these, the relen
horse was discovered in a stable of the Junction Hotel,
with several other animate, and the supposed thieves
were quietly drinking in the bar of the Inn. Preeeed-
log with some caution as the inspected men were
powerful (slows, Mr. beggan presently saw them go
and attend to the horse. He asked them what they
vented for ir, and the price named was 70 guineas.
Tne horse was then taken out into the yard, so that
Mr. Riley might ammo himself be bad made no
mistake. By a sign previously agreed upon, he
acqiainted Mr. Derwin the roan in question was his
property, and Ile Denali immediately collared the two
fellows, but was knookel down and kicked by them.
Notwithstanding that he was seconded by the exer-
tions of the p3lleemer. and the owner of the stolen
horse. One of the priaonen would doubtless have
eicaped but for the arrival upon the scene of several
gentlemen from the bar, upon whom Mr. Doggett
galled ia the Q teen's name for assistance. That help
wa.s promptly given, and the horae-stealers were in due
time secured and handcuffed. Tasy gave the names of
George White, of Liverpool, and Edward Taylor, of
Southampton. The evening train conveyed Mr. Ueggen,
the polioeumn, and the captured birds to From*, as
well es the stolen horse and its owner. The men were
looked up at Procne until Sunday morning, when they
were handed over to the custody of Supt. Galloway, of
Birmingham.

The above report, from Bristol paper, is we are
infarmtd, very much exaggerated, sod the " hair-
breadth *snipe of the Proms superintendent a pure
fabrioation. It is %lite true, one of the men *odes-
roared to ello4llo, but no attempt whatever well made
to attack the pada' ; Supt. Heiman was never knocked
down or kicked. It is quite inoorrest that esmiral
hostelries" in the town were Melted In quest of the
horse stealers. The Juno:Hos Hotel was the only house
sidled upon, aad there tile men and the stolen horse
were found.