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HUNTINGTON.
A SLIPPERY THIEF.

A thief entered the barn of o. G. Beard between the hours of II and 4 o'clock,
 Sunday night, and stole buffalo robe,
 wolf robe, two horse blankets, two rope
 halters and bag. Afterward he went to the barn of W. W. Wilkinson and took robe and blanket. The theft was dis covered at the Boards about 4 o'clock. Footprints were found leaving the barn and were traced by o. G. Beard and son to Oronoque, thence over Warner hill to Lyman Lattin's, thence down the turn pike to the Nash place, where the trail was lost. Word was telephoned to
 Bridgeport police headquarters to be on
 the lookout and notice was also given in | the school at Nichols, after which Mir Beard and son returned home. In the afternoon MT Beard, accompanied by Chief Tomlinson of Shelton went to Nichols to make further investigations, I Having canvassed the place without get | ting much satisfaction they were return | ing home over the Huntington Center
 road when they discovered a man sitting on bag filled with something beside the fence on the south side of the road lead
 ing past MT Lyon's. They at once drove to him. Through hole in the bag MT
 Beard recognized his robe and told the | chief to arrest the man, which the chief promptly and energetically proceeded to do. The man was just as prompt as the
 chief and having the advantage of being
 unencumbered by overcoat and water proof freed himself from his grasp and
 ran. The chief caught him by his foot
 as he went over the fence on the opposite
 side of the road, but here again fate was
 against the chief for the wall gave way
 in manner to release his hold. The
 chief is good runner, but the sprinting l ma tItlQg nf that remarkable. | Like deer he sped across the pasture | toward the woods. MT Beard advised ! the chief to shoot. He sent two bullets
 after the fellow, but without any sppar- ant effect unless it was to increase his speed. The last that was seen of him he went over a hill in the woods. MT Beard regrets that the horse demanded his at- tention so that he could not help the
 chief at the critical moment. All the
 stolen goods were recovered except the ! rope halters. After this tour through
 Isinglass district showed that the man
 went up that street about o'clock, Mon- day morning, carrying a small bundle and that he inquired twice for Booths
 Hill. This satisfied the chief that he be-
 longed to gang that has long had head quarters in house at the lower end of | that district, and that he would be tat
 home" that night. He accordingly re-
 turned to Shelton, procured a team and | two or three men, and visited the house
 during the night, found the man but he
 evidently was not in mood to "receive''
 for he slipped out of rear passage and
 again took to the woods. He is thick set man, about medium night, brown
 moustache, wears derby hat and black
 coat, and is about 20 years old. He
 manifests some oddity of manner and | says his left hand is useless. This is not believed. He is a foreigner.