The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1870-02-10

without apparently caring to overtake
him, now suddenly became eager, and
| enjoined Mr.. Coe, whose horse stood
hitched, to help him overtake the man
who was stealing his team. According
ly TREY both got in the cutter and start
ed at good speed. Defendant seeing
them coLaing, also whipped up, and the
chase becaine animated at once. 1t went
on thus till the cutter overset, when MIR
Coe ran after his horse, and Mr.. Sperry
after his horses. After running n short
distance, he fuohd Mr.. Gillespie with u
stout team to whom he appealed for aid.
Getting in with him the chase was was
renewed and continued till his team was
pretty we'll blown, when, coming across
Nj. Bunker, the pursuers were transferr-
ed to his sleigh and the chase grew hot
ter than ever. BY this time the defend
ant, who had made a circuit, had got
back to within about two miles OF TIP
ton, and his team giving out, he aban-
doned it and took to his heels. The pur-
suing party had grown to four or five in
number aud pushed him SO that he
finally stopped to inquire what they
wanted. TO his establishment, they ac-
cu,ed him Of trying to steal the team he
had been driving, and with talk by
some of the party of IA more summary
punishment, they brought him to town
| and put him into the sheriff. hands.
The defendant, who first came to Tip
ton in November last. and remained
here some six or eight weeks, in his
statement to the Court said that he told
the liveryman his wife was at Upton or
u place northeast of there; that he met a
man on the edge of town who had board
ed at the Palmer House with himself and
wife, who told him his wife was at Clar-
ence; that he met the sheriff ON the
Clarence road driving a red cutter, and
that when he saw a red cutter after him
thought at once he was wanted for q
"gin scrape" in which his brother was
concerned directly, and he indirectly,
while they were staying in this place,
aud therefore ran to escape arrest.
Part of this, at least, was proven to be
true. The wife of the defendant, q
pretty, well dressed and lady like young
woman, who made her appearance at
the trial, was at Clarence. He did meet
the Sheriff in cutter just out of town;
and there had been a ''gin scrape" that
gave some one cause to fear arrest.
! AIICl thC al uIAciltS vi COuuScI, L
and Carr being for the State, and S. V.
Landt for defence, the court held the
defendant to bail in the sum of $500 to
appear at the June term of the District
Court, and adjourned at II! O'Clock
Sabbath morning. Have we Sunday
law?) The prisoner, not finding bail
on the spot, was committed.
There was considerable feeling in
Casterlne's favor, most who attended
the trial, though thinking him by no
means an exemplary young man, were
forced from the evidence to believe that
he had no intention to steal the team
from the vindictive livery man, who
| followed man whom he suspected of
such intention 80 miles almost within
hail without overtaking, or as he said,
ever seeing him; and on Monday, some
80 names were obtained to a bond and
he was liberated upon bail.
According to Casterline's own account
o. himself, he came from New York
to Ransom, somewhere near HillsdaIe,
Hiilsiaie Co. Mich, where he resided
for nearly II years, and owned ii farm
which he sold the 9th Of May last. He
! then Went TO kankakee, Illinois, and
/ kept hotel from July to November,
when he came directly to Upton, Think
| ing Cedar new county where wild
! land could I've bought cheap. Disap-
| pointed in this, he has been looking Tor
land elsewhere, his wife meantime
staying here and at Clarence. In con-
| tirInation of part of this story, ut least,
! he refers to Dale d Durham, bankers at
kankakee. and others; SO that any one
VIII Is sufficiently interested can soon
/ brand it true or false.