The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-07-09

with others, had bur -
SiariZed a store. been arrested, and
escaped from Jail. His route was
learned, and there being no regular
train soon, a special was chartered,
and with a bunch of Ants, as the :
members of the A. III. T. A are called,
aboard. started in pursuit When it
returned few hours later ii had -
aboard the poIicemanburglar.
The Anti-Horse Thief association is :
rather novel organization now flour.
1ShIng in the middle west, having
members as far east as Ohio, and as =
FAR west as New Mexico. and a total
membership of 10000. 1t is organized
ON the lodge system, and combines
oosh protection and detection in its
Ga@h OF operatioa-protection in that
lIS members unite in guarding the
pSfsoh' nome aud property of each
hnehDer against unlawful interior
Snce by others; and detection, i'm that
tHs members will hunt and capture
amy persons who transgress on the g.
hsh's OF any member, and husSs for II
and RECEIVERS stolen property. The
ue1scuve FEATURES are for the purI,- Sc
Si making the protective features
more successful and effective The
OIuer oiten spends ten times the +
recovering +
N but 1t teaches thieves what TN ev. 4
pect if they modest the pronertv .,
any member. Hiring a train IN chase
"A thief is heavier expense than o.,
public officer WILL or can. afford 40
incur, but that expense was small
"nen divided among hundreds of
members. and they consider n we'll
spent n big thief is in the penjton-
Nlary' and an Impressive lesson haze
oeen taught to other thieves in th,t .
locally. " 'ndt
mere Is a marked difference no.
tween the A. III T. A. and the ola IT,, -
@'.Aons Oh mat nature The vigiIantes abc
Whom our fathers sometimes sneak Often
themselves up as judge jury and execut;ora
Trey sometimes held "necktie" parties in 60,
Secinned spot In the woods on n DARK nigl
anu perhaps there would be a lipht-finger
sentiehan missing from that community +
ls'e1t morning. The regulators, about which ,
ie"u' soinelimes forced people to lea
the nelghborhood or take the consequence,
Eheir motives for such action were oftor or,
rioEIaoie Not so with the A. Fl. T.. A. II do
Kot violate one law to uphold another n 4
poses a strict obligation upon its memhers
OBEY the law themselves. II then comman
e1hers 10 90 likewise or suffer the DenaItv II
4aW provides. 1t catches criminals buf fur,
anew at once over to the officers of the Ia,
Some have styled the A. H. t. A. an Officer
aid society, and in fact its record entities II
Shaf appellation 1t opposes mob violence wi
s1H OF ats influence, and has prevented mo
than one lynching. It has recently been ma
Eng Its plans to prevent il possible the intr
ducfion OF '"night-riding" in Arkansas ar
oklahoma "Pi otect the innocent: bring Il
guilty 10 Justice" is its motto.
A mistaken idea some people have OF q
a ii. I. A. is that it looks after horse thiey
only Every kind of stealing as well as 9th
violations of the law. comes within the SEQ,
OF ats work. Cases are on record where Il
A. FL t. A. spent ten dollars to recover a de
fzr whip. One such case usually puts an CT
To- whip-stealing in that community. Its obie
AZ doing so is not the value OF the whip. b
inc lesson taught. 1t convinces thieves Il
not profitable, and is extremely hazardous,