Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-12-20
From Saturdays Daily. \.
BOLD YOUNG THIEVES.
Young Men OF Sank Rapids
Sold q stolen Cow to y
Little Falls Dealers. 81
EYlDBICE AGAINST THEN CONCLUSIVE

The Capture OF Some OF Them
viii Probably be b
4 u" Effected Today. -.
Sheriff A. LaVoia, Of Benton county,
Of which Sauk Rapids 10 tho county
seat, was In the city Friday In
search Of evidence against some sus-
pected thieves Whose, residence is In
that village, and 80 successful was
he In his search that 1t 10 quite prob
able that some of the suspects. II not
all, will find themselves In jail before
the sun sets today. ~ @-,t....s.:. 4t II
The evidence found against them 10
the hide of q COW stolen from y
resident Of that village, and which
was brought here and disposed of
BY them to the meat market firm Of
Kerrich & Moeglein.
The suspected parties are two
young men named Baily and a young
man named Ed. Briggs. On Nov.
%. last. one Of the Bailys and Briggs
drove team belonging to the latter
to this city leading the COW behind
the wagon. They put the team up
at Stuart's livery stable where Jud.
son Briggs, Jr.. a brother Of one Of
tho suspects. was employed. To
him they claimed that the COW was
the property Uf Bailv, and that he
wanted to sell 1t. They asked $25
for the animal. Baily claimed to
have taken the animal under
chattel mortgage from q man near
Royalton. He stated that he had
worked for the man and that when
he quit the man could not pay him.
but gave him 40 security for bis pay
q mortgage on the COW. When the
mortgage came due the man was
still unable to paw, 40 he took the
COW. Judson Briggs made the sale
of tho COW to Kerrich & Moeglein,
getting 81 .95, for. but he was entire
~ blameless In tho matter, as he
supposed tho story told by them
was the truth.
Ed. Briggs was suspected OF steal
Ing other property there and about
a week ago the authorities Of that
place, knowing Ut their visit wrote
to the authorities here to ascertain
II he had disposed Of the property
here. He had not but the authorities
here wr,,te hack the particulars Of
the sale Of the COW. and az an
animal answering the description
was missing, Ian investigation
Immediately begun, resulting az
above stated. The cuw was the
property of man named Gotleib
.Katzorek and he came up from Sank
Rapids Friday night and identified
the hide az that Of bis missing COW.
The horns Of the animal were still In
tho possession of Kerrich & Moeglein,
and were also identified by the
owner. Sheriff LaVuie took posses
sion Of the hide and horns and re-
turned to Sank Rapids this morning,
with the intention Of arresting the
parties an soon as possible. The
Bailys are in Sank Rapids, but
Briggs is not, but hs is located and
will in all proba bility be caught in a
day or two. The team driven by
them on their trip to this city be-
longed to Briggs and after disposing
Oi the COW they returned to Sank
Rapids. They sold dressed beef to
q st. Cloud dealer immediately after
their return, and 1t 10 supposed that
tho animal was stolen from
someone on tbs way home,
but az yet no one has
reported. an animal missing.
sheriff LaVoie states that the Bailya
are supposed 10 be q part of nest
Of thieves that have been operating
In that vicinity for some time. He
also stated that he has known the
Briggs boys for number Of years,
and this is the first time that one oil
them has heen suapected III being i'm
plicated In an affair Of this kind.
Briggs has been making bis home
with the Bailey's for some time, and
It 10 believed that he was led into
this affair by them. G
Yellow Jaundice Cured.
Suffering hunna m ~ nhUuld he sun.