The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
HORSE THIEF ARRESTED.
Clever Detective Work Of Local Citizens,
Who Are Deserving a Place
Among the PinkertOnS.
TAKEN TO HAGERSTOWN THURSDAY.

u Oay morse anu JrOJJlnR OuSRy,
together with q set of harness,
shotgun, overcoat, pair of shoes,
a ham and some other articles
were stolen from Samuel l.. Fiery
near Hagerstown. The horse
was a tive.yearold bay, and said
to be worth 1925.
On Wednesday morning, a man
driving bay horse hitched to an
open.top buggy, called at the
Summers home about two miles
west of this place along the pike
and asked Tor horse feed and
dinner. After dinner the strang.
er offered to sell the whole out
fit for $50. This looked good to
the Summers boys, but not hav.
ing fifty dollars just at hand, sug.
gested that they would go to town
and secure the money. They
came to town. Mr.. Summers
called on Prothonotary Harris,
told HIM the story, and asked
him to furnish the money. The
story aroused Mr.. Harris's sus.
picions and he suggested that
Mr.. Summers bring the stranger
into his Office. After slzlug up
his man, he informed Mr.. Sum.
mers that he wocld furnish the
money, but that he was too busy
to bother with it further just
then, and that they should re-.
turn in the evening.
After they had gone, Mr..
Harris quietly telegraphed the
facts to Chief of Police Klenzing
of Cham mbersburg, and added that
he felt sure the horse had been
stolen. The Chief, who had al.
ready received a letter from
Sheriff Barber Of Washington
county, Md, telling him of the
Monday night stealing, tele-
graphed Harris to have the man
arrested. Mr.. Harris thinking
he might as well finish up the job,
told Cashier M. w. Mace and D.
w. Gress, who were in his office
at the time to accompany him
and they would have the real ex.
perience of capturing a horse
thief; they of course took the
sheriff along as a matter of pre-.
caution and proceeded to the
Summers home, Sheriff Harris
and d w. Gress, IN one buggy,
and Prothonotary Harris and
Merrill w. Mace In another.
When they reached the Summers
home, Merrill sprang out of the
buggy walked up through the
yard, and instead of entering the
house at the front door, walked
around to the rear of the house,
and Unexpectedly ranintohls man,
who had just emerged from the
back door and was heading for
the woods. With the air Of a
Pinkerton, he grabbed the stran.
ger, and informed him he was
under arrest. "All right" said
the stranger, "I'll go with you,
but | want my overcoat."
Just then Mr.. Mace was joined
by the other members of his
party, and before giving the
stranger his overcoat, the Sher-
if searched the prisoners clothes
In the inside coat pocket was
found a nearly full box of cart.
ridges, about half of which had
been whitfield down to a sharp
point. In one of his overcoat
pockets was a wicked LOOKING
gun, and some money was found
on his person. The stranger
claimed he had bought the horse
near Mercersburg for $500;
this did not agree with the story
previously told Mr.. Harris, as he
said to him that his father had
died near Greencastle a few days
ago and that he owned the team
and wanted to sell 1t to get money
to return west.
The stranger was brought to
town, lodged in jail, and on Thurs
day morning Sheriff Barber and
Chief Klenzlng arrived and took
him to Hagerstown. He gave
his name as Albert Rlnehart, and
his residence Greencastle.
CuhSor;ba for tho ItNamc jnplu