Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-08-25
From tAs clsssiznd fisia Dealer
Capture Of q Notorious HoRse.
Tkief and States Prison Bird.

From ne C1esslznd fiain Dealer
Capture Of 4 NOtOriOus Horse.
Tkief and States Prison Bird.
John B. Cooley is lnly % ysals old. yet
he may justly rank among the veteran and
leading rascals of the day. Ten yean ago
hs was ssnt from This city 70 the Peniten-
tiaty at Columbus, for manslaaghser. He
shot his brother -in-law in some sort Of :
row. The latter died from The efect ofhez
wounds, it was thought. He was sent for
ten years, bat be behaved 20 well fhzt
Gov. Wood was induced to pardon him
out after be had been there . few years.
Cooley returned to Cleveland and recon-
menced life of rsscality. He was sly
and cocl-headed, and for long time bat
fed the attempts of the police to get hold
Of him. He was finally caught in some.
rsscality-passing counterfeit money. he
was tried, convicted and sent to the feni-
tsntiary again, bat for how long time
We do not hear.
Last winter his wife died 10 miserable
hovel on the West Side. Some said shs-
disd Of starvation, while Others said that
poor whisky ailed her. Bad enough either
way; but there are those IN this city who
knew her uhenshe was fair and guileless
gil, and wis Was always considered very
hard case. She left four children, the eld-
est being pretty little gih of ten years.
These children were kindly cared for by
the neiehborA 3
A few weeks ago Cooley turned up in
Cleveland again. his second sentence in the
Peuitentiary having expired. Having been
unfortunate in shooting and passing bad;
money, be thought be would try his hand
at horses. About week ago be gathered
up his four children, hired two horse
Of Crittenden, and started for Chagrin
Falls, as he said, but be really meant to 90
to Lafayette, Indiana, as it has since turn
ed out. About ten miles beyond Oberlin,
the carriage broke down. As he could
not repair il he left it in the woods, un-
harnessed the horses, turned them into
lot chartered handcar, and took his chill
dren to Oberlin. :.
He left them there al Q boarding house,,
and, and returned to town. He went to c. :
H. Jennings stable and hired saddle
horse to 60 into the country "after a Gov"
as be stated. Several days having elapsed,
and 10 tidings of the sweetspoken man or
his COW reaching Jennings, be secured the
services Of Independent Detective Gala
CHER, and they naturally went 10 Oberlin,
Is that is rather suspicious place. They
found Cooley's children, and on examining
his carpet-sack, which be had left with
them, it was pretty clearly found out what
he was up TO.
Letters from other thieves were found,
and also blank book of two hundred pa
ges, which it is supposed be wrote in States
Prison, chiefly relating to horses-how TO
cure bolts, ETC., and how to color horses,
so (in the expressive language of Cooley
"the owner can't tell them till HI freezes
over" By one of these letters Cooley was
traced to Newcastle, P, where be was ar
rested yesterday "by telegraph He will
be brought here for trial we presume. The
horse was found in his possessession. Thus
it seems be has stolen can't be determined.
He has evidently crowded a great deal of
rascslity into few weeks.