The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-02
EARLY MORNING TRIP
Strange Stories Told by Two
Young Men.
WAS 1T ONLY A FR0LIg {
They Broke Into the BradIgan Brothers'
Stable and Galloped OF on Two Horses,
But subsequently Returned the Animals
and Told ConfiictingSstories.

At about two o'clock yesterday morns
ing Chief of Police O'Hara and Lieuten-
ant Dougherty heard some shouting and
the lower part of the town and near the
slaughter houses. They walked down
Main street to ascertain the cause of the
disturbance but before going far dis
cerned the forms of two horses, with the
form of man ON the back of each, gal
loping towards the stable of the Bradigan
Bros, at the south end of Market ,alley
Although the police got to the stable i'm
mediately after the horses entered it they
could only find the horses, which were
sweating and breathing heavily The
men who had been upon the backs of the
animals had mysteriously disappeared.
An examination of the premises con
WINGED the police that something was
wrong. 1t was evident that the stable
door had been forced open, and the lock
missing.
Chief O'Hara struck a match and en-
tered the stable. He found young man,
who proved to be Joe Krapowicz aged 10
years, crouchng beneath the neck of one
of the horses in a stall Officer Dougherty
pulled Thomas Gaynor, aged 20 years, out
of a manger of the adjoining stall.
Neither man offered resistance. krapo-
wicZ accompanied his captOr sulkily and
| gave no explanation. Gaynor pretended
| to be half asleep and not fully conscious
of what was going on. Both were taken
before Justice Williams.
Gaynor gave his residence as St. Clair.
He said he formerly resided in this town
/ and came here on Saturday to have a
good time with some of his old time
| friends. Having no place in which to
| sleep he sought the Bradigan stable at
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made berth in the manger. There he
slept until he was arrested, he said, and
knew nothing about horses, Krapowicz.
| or anything else. krapowicz, he also
said, was perfect stranger to him.
| krapowicz was not smart enough to
| follow Gaynor's story. He said he and
| Gaynor parted on one of the town streets
at O'Clock Saturday night. He went to
a wedding in the First ward and there at
| about . o'clock yesterday morning a
| strange man gave him two horses asking
| that they be put in the Bradigan stable
| He just got the horses in when the police
| arrived.
! Krapowicz was searched and in one OF
his pockets was found the missing lock of
the stable door He didn't know how il
got there unless the wind blew it in.
The stories told by Gaynor and Krapo
| wicz were so conflicting and evidently SC
false, Justice Williams asked them to
furnish $500 bail, each. Being unable tC
do this, they were committed on a charge
of breaking into the stable.
The case has caused many conjectures
By some of the authorities it is supposed
that the you2g men weakened when
making away with the horses and decided
to return them to the stables Others
think the pair were out on a frolic and
took the horses for lively spin and after
satisfying their whim and finding they
were discovered. resorted to lying to get
themselves out of the scrape they got into
by breaking into the stable.