The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-13
ALLGOOD IS GUILTY
ConvictediYeSterdayo on Grand
Larceny Charge.
COMMITS CRIME IN 1897
Stolen Horses Were Taken
to Rice County.
COMMITS CRIME IN 1897

Fh ank Allgood was convicted yesterday
in TIM district court Of this coanty on tn,
scharge of grand larceny and is now con
fined in the county jail awaiting the sen
tence of the court.
The crime for which ulgood was ar.
rested and convicted was committed near
Maize. Kan, in 1897. and at that time
two horses, the property of a farmer by
the name of Schermer were stolen. One
horse was afterwards recov cred, but the
whereabouts of the other horse is not
known even at the present Ii me.
A number of witnesses from other
counties were present and ties tilted in the
trial. Perhaps the most convi,.tng of any
of the testimony was that of the Libbys
of Rice county. These people told of two
men having come to their horne and de-
string to trade horses. After a converse
ton in regard to the proposed trace, the
men offered to trade another horse which
they claimed was in better condition than
those which they were driving. If the
trade was made on the basis til e men
were TO produce the horses. The Libbys
accepted the proposition, and within a
few days the other horse was secured
and the trade made.
1t was brought out in the evidence that
this was the method adopted to keep the
officers from ascertaining where the
horses were. After the trade was made
the men came back TO this county and
were here for some time. 1t developed
in the evidence yesterday that the two
men were supposed to have been AIIgood
and Ballard. Ballard is now confined IN
the state penitentiary for a term of
years.
When the Schermer brothers were put
On the witness stand they told Of Allgood
having been at their home some two CT
three days before the horses disappeared
The stories which he told the family
confiicted and after an investigation were
found to have no foundation whatever
After asking a number Of questions con-
corning the farm property, etc, Allgood
left, and as soon as the horses were
missed he was Immediately suspected OF
the crime according to the testimony Of
the elder Schermer because Of the state
ments which he made at the time he Wis
tied their home
The warrant for Allgood's arrest was
= the hands Of the officers for some time
before the man could be found After
some time he was arrested and confined
in Jhe county jail The warrant was
issued from Justice Glenn's court, the
jurisdiction Of which was afterwards
taken away and transferred to the city
court. The arrest was made after that
time and for several months Allgood did
not get his preliminary hearing He was
taken before Justice Bell. who succeeded
Justice Glenn, and at the hearing was
bound over to the district court
The arrest Of Allgood attracted atten-
ton because Of the fact that he was i'm
piicated in the New murder in Green
wood county by the testimony Of Al. Bal
lard. now in the state prison In ALI
goods testimony here yesterday Ballard
was implicated in the affair and from
tie statements made Ballard did the
trading and other transactions and All
Cc"u was not in the deal A number of
things concerning the two men were
eH' eEt UP and thoroughly sifted BY the
court.
-fJer the jury had all the evidence of
TIE trial they were given instructions.
and were only out but a short time in
getting verdict When the verdict was
read by the clerk Of the court Allgood
did not show that he cared in the least.
After leaving the room his face. showed
that he had counted on being freed in
the~trial.
AT the time the jury returned the YER
dict officers were in the court room with
2 United States warrant for AllgOods ar
rest on the charge Of counterfeiting. The
charge Is an old one and the warrant
has never been served because of the
fact that Allsood has been in confne-
ment since its issuance
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