The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-06
AFTER HORSE THIEVES
IN THE BOROUGH or BROOM
, LYN, CITY or NEW YORK,

Ended In the Thieves Getting Away. the
Stolen Horses Running Wnd. q
Mounted Cops Horse Being Hope.
lessly Damaged and Its Rider Hurt
''Tfs a thick night. pard!'
The speaker was Orr, a clean shaven,
well set up. broad s~houldered. deep
ohested. muscular. clear eyed young man.
''Tis a thick night and a messy" an
swered Sheppard.
Have you the makinss2' asked the first
speaker.
The two young men were on a danger
ous errand. The time vas 80 ate on
Friday night that 1t was practically
yesterday morning. Through the black
ness Of the Flatbush woods they had
pushed on and on. For they are mounted
oops attached to the Snyder avenue
police station and have to push on and
on. And the country was infested with
desperate horse thieves.
Give no quarter said Capt. Dulfer
as he started Orr and Sheppard from
the station house in pursuit OF the par
ticular brace Of horse thieves with which
this account has to do.
Orr and Sheppard were riding through
the thick night. pulling together with
| ti,eiT tsa.h the strn1s OF S~heppard's
toba eco bag after Orr had borrowed the
makings and had rolled the cigarette.
when lust ahead OF them in the night
they raw two other horsemen. To the
left was a wall, a wall OF stone that sepa-
rates Ninety second street from the
meadows beyond. Hence the wali-to
show which Is Ninety-second street,
Kings, and which are meadows.
.Halt!' Orr and Sheppard cried out
to the riders ahead OF them. who were
suspioiously riding two horses: Whips
came down upon the backs OF the two
horses ahead Then began a race. Heads
were stuck out Of the windows OF the
house which is out in that part OF Brook
Ign. The man living In the house is
thought to he named Trumpore and he
follows the ice business, it Is said, in the
Hot upon the horse thieves galloped the
pursuers. Their trlsty steeds were gain
Ing little by little when the horse thieves
refined TO the left and dismounted. Down
! the road raced the riderless horses.
In another moment Orr was over the
! vail, mount and all. at full gsllop,. for into
the meade. the horse thieves had scram.
he stopped not. With teeth set and his
trusty revolver ready he Numbered
across the meadow after the flying horse
| thieves. A shot barked forth.
HAS Shep bitten the dust?.. young Orr
asked himself. He levelled his own
weapon al the Little Dipper and let the
| sky have it. Disturbed as he was by his
frantic riding. his aim was q shade worse
| than usual and not a star fell. He shot
again and again but with nc better luck
! His horse was not even powder marked.
When Orr had combed the field and had
found no horse thieves he cantered back
to the wall. There he found Sheppard,
whose steed had fallen in the attempt
to clear the wall close behind Orr. The
only one very seriously injured was Shep-
pard's horse, which had broken q leg,
Orr shot his friends horse and h he
looked after the bruised and wrathful
Sheppard. Ambulance Surgeon Plunkett
was summoned and took the injured
policeman to the Hinge County Hospital.
sheppard wat still a bit sore last night
but the doctors said he would be all right
khortly.
Fiatbush pioneers who gathered after
the noise made by horse thieves and pur-
suers said they had seen no horse thieves
as they hurried across the fields. Orr and
Sheppard certainly did see them for q
few moments but not after they came to
that wall which shows where Sinety-sec-
ond street is.
IA a result OF this most zee horse
thief scare in Brooklyn. the police said
Yesterday that the mounted patrol In the
troubled district is soon TO be doubled.
and that IL horse thieves think they can
60 on with this rough stun and get away
with it thingsn happen TO the thieves