The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-28
TWO THIEVES TAKEN
Butler County Farmers Make
a Good Capture.
SOUTH OF BLACKWELL
Returned Yesterday With Two
HorSethieveS,

Harry Long and Charles stipe were
brought here last evening by Deputy
Sheriff A. a. Lin. Of Blackwell, and G.
S. Lang. c. S. Stuart and Charles Kelley.
members OF the whitewater anti-horse-
thief association. and later taken TO FL
dorado. where they will be confined in
the county jail to await trial on the
charge of stealing two horses from Harry
Oily, OF Butler county, one night last
week, while Mr.. Oily was at whitewater
being initiated into the mysteries OF the
Anti-Horsethief association.
From the way the men in Butler county
ran down these two men it viii be safe to
conclude that stealing horses from the
members of this organization IN Butler
county is a very risky business. The
horses were stolen last Thursday night.
and on Friday morning about fifty Of the
members Of the Whitewater organization
started out TO recover them and to cap
ture the thieves. The men going south
struck the trail Of the thieves and horses
at Andover on Friday morning and fol-
lowed it until the thieves we're captured
well, IN the timber, where they had ran to
hide.
When the members Of the organiza-
ton struck the trail they said they had
no intention of ever abandoning il until
they captured the thieves. They de-
clared that they would have followed
them into Texas and clear 70 Mexico
if the men had gone that far. The men
were brought into the city yesterday and
their shaclels removed while they went
to a barber shop to get shaved and have
their hair cut. A reporter for the Eagle
met them there and found that the two
men were OF inclined to talk about
their trip to the territory. Long is a
low, heavy set man and the red spots on
his face showed that he had recently
recovered from the Cuban itch. He tried
to make the men who captured him be-
lieve that he now had the smallpox, but
| they told him that they were not afraid
Of that disease and they would stay close
TO him until he landed in the peniten-
tiary. One side OF Longs face was bad
" peeled as If he had been dragged for
a mile over a gravely road. The men in
charge said they had not injured him.
When asked how his face got hurt Long
said he had accidentally run through a
threshing machine. Stipe is rather
TALL and both men seemed to be in
telligent. They were well dressed. None
OF the party knew Long, but Stipe was
known to them and used TO go to school
with the man whose horse he stole.
The Eagle published the story about
Mr. Diuy having his horse stolen while
he was Joining the Anti-FIOrsethief assO-
citation and the Butler county men said
they heard of that story IN the Eagle
everywhere they went People seemed to
thing that it was a good joke and they
said that very think increased their
anxiety to capture the thieves. They
said the case had been given such wide
notoriety that every horsethief in the
country would know it If they faile0 TO
capture the men who did the stealing.
The capture is a credit 10 the Anti
Horsethief association of Whitewater.
They have shown that the men compos-
ing it are banded together for the pur-
pose Of protecting themselves in lawful
manner They have no intention Of tax
ing the law into their own hands but sim
ply to help the officers of the law. They
want to capture the thieves who steal
their horses and prosecute them until
they are landed in the penitentiary. This
/ chase shows that the members Of the
organization understand their business
They pursued these men with as much
method as a general would move the
I army under his command.
/ When they mad followed the trail Of
the horsethieves as far south as Udall,
they learned that the thieves had traded
one Of the horses near that place, but
thew did not stop to hunt for the horse.
They kent on like bloodhounds on the
tran OF the men who had stolen the
horses. They LETT the secretary of the
+ organization, Charles Kelley, at Winfield
while the rest of the band pushed on