St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-30
Wholesale Horse Stealing
Operations Conducted by
Two Boys.
Chicago Socialists Indulge
Freely in Incendiury Ut
teranceS.
No New Developments in the
Stevens County, Kansas,
War.
Brakeman Murdered While
Endeavoring to Subdue
Unruly Passengers.

CHICAGO, July 29.-The police have
succeeded in capturing a sixteen-year-
old robber, whose achievements in the
horse-stealing line are unparalleled in
this part of the country. His name he
gives as Edward Brown, and he claims
to have come here from Kendall county,
Tex. about June 6. Brown came in
with carload of Texas ponies, and
when his friends had sold their stock
and returned home, he formed the ac-
quaintance of Charles Crane, aged nine
teen, and also hailing from Texas.
Brown soon proposed that the go into
the
HORSE-STEALING BUSINESS
on large scale, being convinced that it
would be very profitable. A business
partnership was formed between the
two Texans, and a barn rented on the
west side of the city that would hold
about twenty horses. Nightly fOrays
were begun and were successful. The
boys hired five men as grooms, bought
hay by the ton and oats by the car load.
In less than twenty-four hours after
they started in business they had stolen
five horses and sold three of them for a
liberal price. The
BOLDNESS OF THEIR PLANS
was remarkable. They would hitch
two stolen horses to a stolen carriage
and drive along Michigan avenue until
they saw team which suited them. To
see good horse meant ownership for
them, for they would follow it home
and in all probability secure it that
night. Every few days the two
Texans would go out into the
Suhnrhc fo lnnly for U0ni hOrSQC FNhpy
stole them from Hyde Park, Grand
Crossing, South Chicago, Englewood
and other suburbs west and south.
Their stable became full of valuable
horses, and citizens began to frequent
the stables for the purpose of buying
stock. The business prospered exceed
ingly and the whilOm cowboys bios
SOmed
OUT IN RADIANT RAINENT.
All the time complaints were coming
in to the police thick and fast, but they
could not find the thieves. July IL.
however, was a fatal day for the adj
buggy from North side citizen and
drove to blacksmith shop near
by to have some slight repairs made.
While waiting one of them stole the
blackSmith's watch, and was soon ac-
cused of the theft. Both drew revolvers
and compelled the blacksmith to apollo
giZe for the charge. AS soon as the
boys had left, the smith complained at
the Lakeview station, giving good
DESCRIPTION OF THE BANDITS.
A detective was detailed on the case.
He was about to give up the search in
the early part of last week, when sud-
denly he saw the boys driving west on
Washington boulevard. He secured
horse, followed them to their barn and
shadowed the place for three or four
days, as he could not believe that they
alone could have been guilty of such
a gigantic scheme of horse steal
ing as was before his eyes.
Crane became suspicious of the es-
pionage and fled, but was arrested. On
his person were S400 in cash. Twenty
five horses and eighteen stolen vehicles
have already been turned up and more
are coming in every day. The horses
are uniformly fine and the vehicles
range from dog cart to fOur-in-hand.
Brown confessed everything to Capt.
Villiers. The stolen property is being
restored to the proper owners as fast as
it can he secured and identified.