The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-08-31
MINING TOOLS
WE'RE MISSING.
And Cole Was Arrested, Charged
With Taking Them.
STRANGER SOLD THEM TO HIM
And Bis wife Said They would Cause Hin
Trouble-(siveu Preliminary
Hearing wednesday
MORNING.

Marshal Reinhart left this city Tues
day evening with warrant for Philir
Cole, a coal miner who lives at the
Blocks" small coal miners village
below Magnolia. The marshal returned
with his prisoner shortly after 1 O'Clock
Wednesday morning, and placed him In
a cell at the police station.
Tuesday afternoon warrant was
gotten out before the mayor by Albert
NJ. Snyder, residing in the vicinity OF
the Blocks charging Cole with hav-
ing unlawfully entered a building or
August 25th, in which the complainant
kept his mining tools, and appropriated
the following: Two sets Of mining tools
valued at s15 and two mining picks
each valued at 81, total of s17.
When arrested by the marshal, Cole
said that the tools which are in his
possession, and which are said to be-
long to Snyder, were not stolen by him,
He alleges that he purchased them a
few days ago from a man for 50. Cole
furnished the marshal with a descrip-
tion of the man who sold him the tools.
The defendant is an aged coal miner
and II Is said he has an excellent repu-
tation at his home village.
ARRAIGNED WEDNESDAY.
Cole was arraigned before the mayor
in police court Wednesday morning.
Cole is a man apparently forty years of
age, Is married and has a wife and
several children in poor circumstances
in the coal village near Magnolia, to
which place he removed only a short
time ago. When asked to plead he said
mot guilty" He will have a prelimi-
nary hearing Friday morning at Q
o'clock before the mayor.
A News-Democrat reporter interro-
gated Cole. and he told the following
story of the manner in which he came
into possession Of the mining tools:
Sunday morning at breakfast time
a stranger called at our house before
we were up, and wanted something to
eat. After providing the food for him,
he said he had some mining tools he
wanted to sell. He said he was a coal
miner, and that the rust on the tools
was occasioned by their laying a long
time unused. I didn't want to buy
them. After dinner the man came
around again and bargained for the
sale of the tools. / then offered him
$3.50 for them. He took the money and
left, but when he had gone only a short
distance he called back that I needn't
be afraid, that the tools were all right
and that nothing was wrong. The man
then started off and I suspicioned that
something was wrong, and my wife
didn't like it that bought them.
WIFE WAS SUSPICIOUS.
1T was too late to call the man back,
as he had disappeared. I then marked
the tools with my name, as the mine
superintendent require all miners to
do. My wife said they would cause
me trouble. Early Monday morning
Snyder came along and he saw the tools
in the wagon which 1 was going to
drive to the mine, and he said they
were his. I told him to take them.
When he asked me where I got them,
I told him bought them at second
hand store. should not have done so,
and that's what caused me this trouble.
I am not guilty and can prove it."
Cole furnished Marshal Reinhart with
a description of the man from whom he
bought the tools. He says his wife will
substantiate his story. Cole was re-
manded to the county Jail in default of
security for his appearance. He stated
that his family is without means and
that he would be unable to provide
himself with an attorney, as he had
no money.