The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-10
TWOHORSE- Thieves.
CAUGHT |NHAN0VER.
Tried to Sell Henry Wallcrstcin's
Buggy for Forty Dol
CONFESSED WHEN CAUGHT
Took Team III Broad Daylight
From in Front Of
Store.

After accepting an offer of $40 for
d horse valued at 5000. Leo Allen.
twenty-six years old. and Leslie S.
Thomas. twcnty-threc years Of age,
were arrested in Hanover county yes
tcrday afternoon by Constable G. L.
Beadles on a charge of stealing the
horse and buggy from Henry S. Wal
1erstein, and last night they were
brought back to Richmond and ocked
IN In the Second Police Station.
Both young men declared that they
were "dopy" and under the influence
OF LIQUOR. at the time. and neither, by
anv drawing out Of his imagination,
could tell how they happened to be
eight miles from Richmond, on tho
M~cchanicsvillc Turnpike. engaged in
irving to sell a. horse for less than
one-fourth of its value.
The horse and buggy were stolen
about midday yesterday In front of
Irl|man.s store. on East Main street,
and Immediately the alarm was given.
Allen and Thomas drove east down
Main street. and at length got out
into Henrico. and thence into Han
over. on tho Mechanicsvtlle Turn
nike. where. as they thought, they
were far from danger of detection and
arrest. they stopped at the farm OF John
Jones. and offered TO sell the horse
to him.
Price Too Low
Mr. Jones looked the horse over-a
handsome animal-and became suspt-
cious when the men named 5I5 as
their price. and then reduced II TO sac.
do you this horsc? he asked
them. They replied that they did. and
-. 4 49, 49, 1orcc a MI hiI~0S,
were owned by their father. who lived
In Petersburg. Still suspicious. Mr..
Jones asked them to walt while he
went across the road to consult With
his friend, e. r. Carter. From Mr..
Carter.s home he telephoned to Con-
stable Beadles, and that officer was
soon on the scene, Mr.. Jones detainins
the two men in tho meanwhile.
When the officer arrived he tele-
phoned to Richmond. and learned from
Sergeant Jeter at the First Police Sta
ton tina a horse and buggy answer
ing to the description of the horse and
buggy before him had been stolen from
Mr.. Wallerstcin. He then placed both
men under arrest, n made arrange
ments with Mr.. Carter to help him
bring them back to Richmond. Allen
came back with the officer, and Thomas
rode with Mr.. Carter.
Confcsrcl Theft.
On the return "trip Thomas innocent
~ asked Mr.. Carter what would be
done with him and his comrade for
taking the horse and vehicle. and. see
ing his mistake, Immediately surren-
dered the whole story.
Thomas, who lives with his sister
at 1907 East Marshall street. lost a
leg four months ago, when he vas run
over by an engine OF the Richmond,
fredericksburg and Potomac tracks
on Belvidcre Street. lie has been in
Jail once. and several times has been
locked UP for drunkenness. Allen
lives on T~werty-siAth Street with his
mother. He also has been arrested
many times. and has served a Jail
term for stealing. He was %pardoncd
and liberated from Jail In the middle
of December, since when he has not
worked. He Is a prcssman by rad
Both men were seen in the station
last night, and acknowledged having
taken the horse n buggy. They in
sisted that they were drunk at the
time. and that they had no idea what
they were doing or how they got into
Hanover county.