The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1911-08-11

and Theodore Waller, horse
thieves, Were captured at Peever
by Sheriff Swanson, Yesterday
Afternoon. and are now behinc
the bars at the Roberts county
Jail.
Al least two Of the trio are bae
men and tha third is an embryo
desperat'o, although .e hasn t
been IN the business long enough
to become hardened. They are
all comparatively young men.
Without Doubt these men are
members Of we'll organized
gang of horse thieves that has
been operating along the North
and South Dakota border for the
past month or two. and it is
known positively that they have
stolen aIt least eight horses, a bug
gy and two saddles.
On We 9esday evening two
gentlemen by the name Of Tenn
pleton and Granger arrived in
Sisstton from Aberdeen, and re.
ported to Sheriff Swanson that
five horses had been stolen from
their barns in that city some tim,
during Monday night. Temple
ton and Granger had no clue to
work on except the fact that the
thieves We're supposed to be
travelling in this direction. Two
valuable saddles had also been
stolen from another Aberdeen
man, and the same gang was sup
posed to have committed both
of khe robberies.
And right here is where Sheriff
Swanson commenced to get busy
and the way he handled the case
quits him in the front rank o!
South Dakota man hunters.
Some three or four weeks ago.
three horses and a buggy We're
stolen from Aberdeen parties
and the buggy was sold to o. F.
Mattison, the Browns Valley
liveryman. At the same timn
and. from the same parties, Mat
tison bought a couple of horses.
But while he knew the horses,
and was confident that they came
from Peever, he didn't know any.
thing about the buggy, and he
had some doubts regarding the OF
iginal ownership of the vehicle !:
so he impaired his suspicious to
Sheriff Swanson. And the sheriff
kept the matter in mind and
was working on it when news of
the stealing Of thefive horses at
Aberdeen reached him.
The sheriff had about come to
the conclusion that the bugg,
bought by Mattison was the one
stolen from Aberdeen early in
July, and he had also figured it
out that the horses bought by
Mattison had been traded to tho
thieves by PARTIES at Peever, and
working on this theory be began
his Investigations at Browns Val
ley yesterday morning. At that
place he got a description of the
lmen who had sold the buggy tt
Mattison and also examined the
horses bought by that gentleman,
and decided that the latter came
from the barn of Jack Kean, at
Peever. He therefore started Mat.
tison off for Peever, to see what
information could be gotten from
Kean regarding the horse and the
men who had stolen them, the
sheriff's idea being that the men
who had stolen the horses at
Aberdeen in July were the same
ones who had committed the
more recent depreciation. He was
also going on the theory that the
horse thieves would again make
for Peever with their booty.
And subsequent events proved
that his reasoning was correct in
both particulars.
On arriving at Peever, Mattlson
talked the matter over with Kean
and decided to 60 to the Agency
And when he was about half way
between the two places he met
the men who sold him the bug
gy, accompanied by another man.
riding three horses and leadine)
two. He Immediately accosted
them and began talking horse
trade, in the meantime turning
his rig around and accompany
ing the men in the direction of
Peever.
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