The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-27
CHARGED WITH
STEALING MULE
Sedgwick County Man Ar
rested by Missouri Officers.
TAKEN FROM THE FIELD
Has Wife and Babies on Farm
East of Town.
HABEAS CORPUS WRIT
Is Applied for in District Court
to Free Man.

Fred Miner. who lives about three
miles east Of this city. is in the county
4an charged with horse stealing sher-
If c. /. Davis Of oregon county, Mis-
souri, is here to take the prisoner back
70 Missouri but has been delayed in
doing this because Of habeas corpus
proceedings brought by Adams & Adams
for the prisoner. Miner is about 30
years old and has a wife and three
babies who are staying with his par
ents on a farm east Of town. The lat
Ter have lived in sedgwick county for
years. moving here from Missouri. Fred
Miner came this last spring, but MS
wife and babies arrived long in ad-
vance Of him
Sheriff Simmons made the arrest
reo1isition from Governor Stanley haV-
ing been sent to him, with instructions
from Sheriff Davis Tuesday he went
70 the farm TO make the arrest. he
found Fred Miner in the field sowing
kafir corn. Two Of his children We're
with him. 1t was not the most pleasant
4ob IN the world. even for an officer
Of the law. to tear man. the mainstay
of the family. away from wife and
babies. Sheriff Simmons. stepping up
TO him said:
u have a little business with you.
Hadn't you better send the children
away
This was done and the sheriff con-
tinued
Il have warrant for your arrest
what have ! done?" asked Miner in
a very composed voice.
well. I don't know that you have
done anything, but this warrant is for
something that you did in Missouri
At this Sheriff Simmons says that Mil
ner turned as white as chalk. lie asked
that he might finish sowing the seed
he had. but this was not allowed him,
for 1t was growing late. Then, he de-
clared that Sheriff Simmons should go
back TO town and that he would come
IN the next morning. His efforts for
little respite were useless. for the sher-
IF told him that of course he could not
do this way They went up to the
house and were met by the old folk.
They both required that the warrant
should be read to them. Fred Miner
changed his clothes and was brought to
this city
Instead Of coming here first for Miner,
Sheriff Davis passed through and went
on down into the territory for another
man. He found him at Woodward, o.
T, and brought him back to Wichita
with him last night His name is Oscar
Bogges. He is charged with horse steal
ing, too. Sheriff Davis said that coming
up on the train Bogges acknowledged
that he had participated in the stealing.
but that there were others of the gang.
Sheriff Davis told him that If he dis
closed who the others were that he might
be freed. He replied that he would
think about it, for he didn't ever ike
20 give away on his "pards."
Davis. IN speaking Of Miners case
last night, said TO a reporter for the
Eagle:
1T was last fan. about September, that
Miner sent his wife and family here to
Kansas and started. as he said, to Texas.
from Thayer. the town where he lived
About this time Lewis Breeder, who had
only mule. camp stove and wife. missed
his old. faithful mule. I happened to
be driving through the county and saw
Miner way west OF IhaYer instead Of
on the way to Texas. suspicioned
something and kind of went over his
tran. Re had gone south for about
twenty-five miles and then turned sharp
~ west. I ate dinner at one Of the houses
on the way and found that my man
had stopped there before me. We got
% talking about him and they told me
exactly the identifying points Of mule.
knot on his shoulder and big. black
nose
Il saw Miner in his cell tonight. He
asked me what I wanted him for I
told him for getting away with Breed
er's mule. 1 told him I traced him and
Of my eating dinner with those people
who knew him. He dropped his head
and said that he didn't care so much
about going back. but Re didn't want
to lay here In this Jail for a week.
4 VIII try to set out Of Wicshita TO-
morrow. as I think maybe we can settle
the haboas corpus proceedings by then.
The papers ae drawn up IN regular
way and there can DE no holding him. -
In the application for a writ of haheas
corpus II is simply stated that Miner is