Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-31
HORSE. THIEF ARkISIEiJ



Alderman Spurricr and ex-AIderman
llollinger took drive yesterday to Fred
erick kOch's I" Farmers Hope Inn," i
hostelry situated in Rapho township, close
to the Lebanon county line. They had
received information that q man named
Joseph Uinkle, otherwise known as
day or two before, and they 9 wanted
charged. The officers lad an accurate
description of the man, and they captured
him without any trouble, brought him to
Lancaster and lodged him in Jail.
The reasons for " Honest Joe's arrest
were briefly these On tho 9th of Dacem-
Der last Mr.. l. E. Cochran real estate
broker of Chester, Delaware, had 4 very
| valuable team stolen-cousisting, OF Il six
year old Hambletonian horse. Jenny
Lind wagon, buffalo robe, fine set of
harness aud horse blanket. alr. Cochran
had been out driving and bad tied his
horse to \ hitching- post while he went
| inside to transact some business. When
he came out his team Was gone, thief
having driven Off with it. Hand-bills
| we're sent cut in all directions and detec-
| tives were put on the track of the thief.
A few days ago it WAS ascer:aincd that
| the thief was " Honest Joe" and that
that exemplary citizen had quartersd
| himself at the C. Farmers Hope" 1t
was also ascertaiUed that the team. worth
fully 81, 900, had been sold to a party in
Cumberland, Md, for 5000. Mr. Coch
ran left s. Honest Joe" to the tender
| mercies of Alderman Sparrier, with the
result above stated, and hastered him
self to Cumberland, dsterininod to get his
| team. He will return via Lancaster
probably in a few days.
| I" Honest Joe'' was greatly chOp-ialle,.
when arrested, and when the officers pro
duced the handcutfs ho begged that they
would not put them on him, lest the fee.-
ings nf his dear old friend, and landlord
MIR. Koch, might be lacerated by sight Of
him in bondage. Joe was spared the hu
initiation of cuffs, but the officers pointed
significantly to their revOlvers. " Honest
Joe " had another trouble he owed the
landlord So, and he could not bear to leave
tho premises until the bill Was paid, and
he only had $1.50. Alderman Spurrier
Clipped in dollar to help pay
the bill to the great delight of both
the landlord and his departing guess.
"Honest joe was sealc ched Ue had
an ordinary pocket knife in his trousers
pocket, large and heavy mortiSlng chlScl
in an inside pocket of his coat, and the
| wooden handle of the cbisel in an outside
pocket. The chisel is very excellent
one for wrenching the hasps off stable
door locks. The officers tried to inter
view "Honest Joe," buthe respectfully do
clined. He said "Ask me no questions
and I'll tell you no lies care nothing
for myself can rest happily in the pen
itentiary, which could not do were | to
tell you all l know think OF the other
! hearts that would bleed.' and Joe relap-
sed into silence. The prisoner appears to
be about fifty or fifty-hve years of age !;
is about feet inches in height Of
rather light build has rel face and in
famed eyes, as though he drank freely
his beard, originally red, is turning grey,
and he has not been shaved for week OF
two. He went to the Farmers Hope about
a week ago. He is shrewd fellow and is
| believed to be au Old horse thief He will
be held to await the action of the Della
| ware county authorities.
Since the above was in typo Alderman,
Spurrier has received d dispatch from Mr..
Cochran, announcing that he had recover
ed bis horse and wagon III Cumberland,
Md.