The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-06-14
CATTLE THIEVES
Make q Bold Attempt to Get
Away With q Fine
Herd,
But are Fooled in Their Attempt,
and the Stock 10 Returned
% The Owoers.

Mention YES made in the BAzoo of les
Thursday at the doinxs Of - couple %
strangers sho arrived n the Mi.~ouri Pa
ci6c stock yards about 8 o'clock ON Wed
nesasy Morbing Las; siih sixteen head oil
6ne Cattle, which they wanted 10 shiI
forthwith. Mr.. Tucker, The g<siIeman in
charge Of the stock ysrd., thought that thu
men acted strangely. aud did not hrs,isl.
to tell them of thst TACT, and ,nfurm-sl
them tbsi he would not ship them that
night. He told them TO return in the
mor0iag and bring come one along e
identify them, n vhic, tine he sou'd
ship the st'ck. They then told Mr.
Tucker that they LeiosZed on, in tn.
country, and the Season for their not a..
irving sooner was that the cattle had stan
peeled in the woods b~fore arriving in town,
and that il took them until about l9
o'clock that night To gather them up.
This did not g With Mr. Tucker, how
ever, ~ he knew veil that they could not
gather up cattle that had stampeded on
such night - that vas, il being very
dark end raining. The mes then left, say.
ing they would return in the morning and
ship them. They did not return, though,
- they said they would, end this went to
convince Mr.. Tucker that his si.spicion
that the cslile we're stolen Vas correct.
The next day DR.. Mcclure, the veil.
known stock dealer, who resides near
Houstonis, happeDed to be At the stock
yards attending to the shipment Of some
si"ck, ani M. Tucker, knowing that Nj.
Mcclure knew the brenda of nearly al the
prominent stock dealers in the county,
showed the de Ter the cattle and asked
him II he knew any Of the brands,
% the cattle we're all branded.
The doctor Immediately recognized one
Of the brands ~ that Of Mr.. J. w. Allen,
. prominent farmer and stock man Who
re.ides near HughesvilIe. In accordance
9th THE Information word VA sent TO NJ.
A.. asking him il he had Lost any stock
from his herd. He at once vent to his
pasture, which is alno used By Mr.. J. F.
Yankee and q. w. Crawford ~ . pasture
for their cattle, and found that sixteen 6os
steers we're missing.
He informed Messss. Yankee end Crav-
lord OF the loss, and ell three Of the xen.
lIsDeo arrived IN this CITY yeeierdsy morn.
ing and proceeded To the stock yard,
where they identified the cattle % belong
ing to them, four earh being the properly
Of Aeasrs. Allen and YANKEE. vhiie the
balance bslo.ged 10 Mr.. Crawford. They
1t once got out the necessary pspess and
The cattle were turned over 10 them,
and they left with them for their homes
lsser in the day. Fun the description
d the Thieves furnished By NJ. Tucker,
he gentlemen q once laid suapicion at
he door Of . couple Of young men Who re
hide in the vicinity Of where the cattle
sere stolen, and for the purpose Of idensi-
ying the ihieves they took . couple Of
.@yloyes Of the stock yard to HughesviIle
nth them. and il they identify the youne
men snspicioned, they will be arrested end
'F"nshi TO this city, where they will be
prosecuted.
The cattle, l.eins very fat, are valued At |
'bOut $500, and the losers can corgrsiu-
ate themselves on recovering them. They
re are very loud in their praise Of NJ. |
Tucker for the way he acted in tie matter,
md he il. indeed. deserving Of much praise
Out Of Work,
nd sick with my kidneys for years. wrote
IT. Alexander Ferris. Of Chenaneo, Forks,
]. Y. recently. He usrd Warmers Safe