The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-01-28
ON TRAIL OF
MEAT THIEVES
Wholesale Killing Made
North of the City.
SOME ARRESTS ARE PROMISED
New Chief of Police Leads
The Searchers.
Monday Night Raids were Made by
Thieves on Pig Pens and Chicken
Roosts and Meat Valued at 500
was Taken.

John w. Klinefelter, the newly APP
pointed chief of police, was duly in
itiated into the duties of the office
Thursday afternoon, when he headed
searching party which visited the
homes of a number of suspected meat
thieves
Last Monday night, a gang of thieves
cut loose in the rural districts, north
of town and stole large quantity OF
select meat. A fine porker was
taken from the farm OF Charles Mon
nette, who resides on the Bucyrus
pike. six miles north of town. Sew
enty-llve chickens were stolen from
G.. Freeman, of that vicinity, and Will
liam Walters also had fat hog stol-
en-.
The pork thieves were very bold in
their work. The tracks i'm the snow
disclosed that two men entered the
hog lots, shot the animals, set the
gun up against the fence while they
bled the porkers. They then placed
the pigs across fence rail, carried
them to the road where they hauled
them away.
The police have had a number of
people under suspicion. In fact they
have followed the case so closely that
they know the Identity of the thieves.
Chief Klinefelter took the aggres-
sive part in the searches made
Thursday. He handled them like an
old head and was successful in dis
closing not a few fine points. The
chief and Captain Bond drove to the
farm of Scott Harvey where they
searched the home of a tenant They
found pork in the house but the wom-
an claimed that she had procured II
from n neighbor. The tenants were
colored people.
Several places in the city were also
searched but none of the parties
could be caught with the goods. By
tracing the blood spots in the snow,
the police We're able to discern where
the porkers We're taken. A part of
the meat came to this city, while
some of 1t was concealed in the coun-
try. Despite the fact that the thieves
have succeeded thus far In battling
the authorities to n certain extent,
there is evidence developing which
will likely result in arrests,
The police are determined to break
several weeks, since meat has scared
in price, thieves in this vicinity have
apparently given most of their atten-
ton to handling this food. The raid
Monday night was an exceptionally
large one. The value of all the meat
stolen aggregated 500.
Patrolman James Thompson pick
ed up a woman in the Erie Yards
about o'clock last night who gave
her name as Mrs. John Orcutt. She
was the victim of q fainting spell
and was in a pitiful condition when
discovered.
SHE was given lodging at
police headquarters over night. This
morning the township trustees pre-
sented her with railroad transporta-
tion to Urbana. She claimed that
her mother lives In Cincinnati and
declared that city her destination.
Mrs. Orcutt was well dressed and
bore the appearance OF q woman
who mas seen better days. She
claimed that she was for a number
OF years an actress and declared that
she was turned out in New York
city She claimed that she walked
from New York to Youngstown by
way of Philadelphia. She said that
she had been sleeping In public
buildings and purchasing her slim ra-
tions with few pennies which she
had. She declared that she was too
proud to beg.