The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-02-03
CASE IS PECULIAR
Huse Moore Is Charged With
Stealing Wheat.
ABANDONS HIS TEAM
Wheat Is Found by Officers
on the West Side.

Huse Moore occupies cell in the coun-
y jail on a charge Of having stolen a
load Of wheat from a farmer near Cod
dard a few nights ago. After this charge
IS answered then may come another that
Of cruelty to animals. The Circumstance
Is surrounding the entire case are .pecu-
liar and at first the officers failed TO ind
the wheat which is alleged to have been
taken
A few days ago Moore borrowed or
hired as he claimed team Of horses and
wagon from a friend Of his who was
working in the south part ofthe city. In
return, Moore left this friend in posses
Sion Of his pony in order that he might
ride to and from his work. This arrange
ment seemed TO be satisfactory as Moore
stated that he had an opportunity Of
making a few dollars doing JOB work
around the city.
on last Thursday morning a teamster
by the name Of Tuders started toward
Goddard after load Of goods, expecting
to return last night On the way out,
several miles from the cltp, just on the
other side Of the Friends University, he
met Moore with a load Of wheat The
horses were exhausted and they were
unable to get the wagon and its load on
solid ground where they could pun it.
Tuders hitched his team to the wagon
aud The four horses got the wagon out
Of the sand and then Tuders went on
toward Goddard As be went along he
kept noticing that wheat was scattered
along the road where it had dropped
from the wagsn belonging 10 Moore.
Tuders thought nothing about the mat
ter as Moore gave some kind OF an ex-
planation Of the trip az that time in the
morning He said nothing about the oc-
cuTence to any one, but the next morn
ing team Of horses was found on the
west side near the university one Of
The horses was dead and the other one.
which was blind, was wandering around
I'D search of something to eat The
wagon was there but there was nothing
In 1t. Tuders heard Of the matter and
being in that neighborhood say the team
and identified them as the one which
Moore had been driving The question
then came up as to what had become Of
Moore and the wheat The officers made
search of the city for the wheat but
failed to find It, They cid md Moore. +
however and he was promptly placed in
The city jail He refused to- say ANYTHING
about the matter and when the officers /
told him that he was to be prosecuted
on the charges stated a5ove he merely
said, well. just go ahead and crack
your whiD. don't care"
Yesterday afternoon. the officers wove
another web around Moore by fndfnr q
Pile Of wheat, judged to be wagon .
load about three miles west of the civ
This was what the officers supposed that
had been done with the wheat That IL
had been unloaded some place ana that
Moore had escaped from observation
he would remove it sack by sack
Detectives Harry Sutton and Park Mas
sey have been working on the case and
they state that they have evidence that
viii send Moore over the road. The man
who owned the team Of horses win 10
loser TO the extent Of one horse and III,
other suffered much from the treatment
which it received from the hands Of
Moore
Moore's case viii be set for the next
few days in the city court. and at that
time he viii have an opportunity Of tel-
Ing Judge Kirk about his trip and where
'hat wheat came from Also what he
was going to DO with that team Of horses
which he had taken from his friend TO
do work around town
Airs. W. a POLK ieft yesterday for
Boulder. Colo.