The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-26
The story of His Apprehension by
Members of Horse Thief De-
tective Association.
REASON FOR A RECEIvERsHIP
CONDITIONS SURROUNDING AMERI-
CAN CHEMICAL COMPANY.
Mrs. Cordes, Asking a Divorce, Says
She Had To Work Like a Pack Mule
-Other Court Cases.

When Judge Afford, in the Criminal
Court yesterday, assessed a fine of 81 and
costs against Henry Walters. colored, and
sentenced him TO Imprisonment in the
workhouse for six months, he closed a
Wild West melodrama which has been in
teresting to the farmers in the northern
part OF Marion county since September
On an agreed statement of facts and a plea
CT guilty to the charge Of petit larceny
Walters was fined and sentenced by the
Judge.
The trial was the result of an indictment
returned by the grand jury which charged
Walters with stealing a cheap watch from
Hez Wishard, of Washington township, on
September 6. The theft Of that watch and
the events after the discovery of the theft
caused enough excitement for a few min
utes in the neighborhood of the Wishard
farm to last the residents for some time to
come. On the day of the beginning of the
melodrama wishard walked toward his
house from a field where he had been
working and found a strange horse and
buggy in his front yard and a strange
white man coming out of the house with a
watch, chain and a valuable charm. he
stopped the white man to inquire what OBJ
5ect re had in taking the stuff without
- $1,000
lin match" The two men scuffied and
fought out to the road. when the burglar
drew a revolver and fired two shots at
Wishard aud jumped into his buggy. In
the meantime a negro put in an appearance
and entered the buggy and started the
horse. He piled the whip. and soon the
team was lost in a cloud of DUST
Wishard went into the house and got his
shotgun. He removed the bird shot from
some shells he had loaded TO kill quail and
rabbits and loaded up some new shells
with old black powder that had rested In a
baking powder can for many years and No.
j shot. Then he went to the stable, sad
died his horse, mounted and rode down the
road. warning his neighbors. who were
all members of the Horsethief Association.
Then the chase for the robbers began and
after a few miles nae been covered the
reached. The horse was winded and the
negro driver was making for the woods
turn around to find Why he was wanted.
The white man, he said, had left the
buggy and started across lots for the cleo
trio car line
A search for the other burglar was of
no avail and the farmers were content
with their capture of the negro. He was
sent to jail charged with petit larceny and
yesterday was transferred to the work.
house for six months. and Wishard's
watch was returned to him.
The story told by the colored man was
original IL untruthful and astonishing If
the truth. He said that he hid been hired
by the man to drive the buggy. The man
visited several houses during the day and
always entered as though welcome and
soon came out and ordered Walters to
drive somewhere else. Walters said he
was an employe of the burglar and knew
nothing OF his business or methods. The
Farmers had reported several burglaries
during the day in the neighborhood, but
the efforts OF the prosecutor to find out who
the white man Is or what other places had
been robbed were fruitless. as Walters pro-
fessed ignorance OF everything but the one
occurrence which ended with his arrest.