Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-10
ALLEGED PAL OF HORSE THIEF
DlckERsoN CAUGHT BY shER.
IFF EDGAR At HAMPTON.
WANTED AT OSkALOOSA
AND ELSEWHERE IN IOWA
Prisoner Surrendered to Sheriff Reed,
of oskaIoosa, Who Has Warrant
Charging Larceny-Arrest is Result
Of Long and Careful Search-Porter
and Family Have Been Living Here.

JOnn Porter, aJlaS Blacky, dl1aS
johnson, wanted in Mahaska and other
Iowa counties, accused of being inn
! plicated in wholesale horse thefts was
arrested at Hampton. Thursday night
by Sheriff j. G. Edgar. Porter is
charged with being implicated with
Tom" Dickerson, who Thursday was
Fort Madison penitentiary on his con-
fession OF stealing the Rocco Bros.
/ team at Boone. DickeTson was arrest
! ed late in July after sensational man
hunt near Malcom.
| Following two trunks, and later
Mrs. Porter, from the Porter home in
| this city to Hampton, Sheriff Edgar
arrested Porter on the street after the
/ hunted man had spoken TO his wife.
i Porter was run down after the most
clever pieces of trailing done by local
officers in a long time.
Taken to Osks.oosa.
| Porter was turned over to Sheriff
| I. NJ. Reed, of Oskaloosa, on the train
at the union station this morning.
/ Porter was taken TO Oshaiocsa to ans
wer a charge of larcency in connection
with horse stealing cases. Sheriff
Reed claims to have abundant proof Of
Porter being implicated in cases in
which Dickerson figured.
Search House; Family FIees.
Porter's arrest was the climax of
several weeks of search by Sheriff
Edgar and Sheriffs Reed, of both Ma
haska and Boone counties. When
Sheriffs Edgar and L NJ. Reed, Of Os-
in
on Porter's trail, the family fed from
this city, and the leaving of the wife
and three children led directly to the
arrest of the husband.
Last Saturday night Sheriffs Edgar
and Reed stood guard over the Porter
home on Arson street, between Third
and Fourth avenues waiting for Por-
ter to return home. He did not ap-
pear and the officers finally searched
the house.
Trunks Furnish Clue.
Since then Sheriff Edgar has kept the
house under surveillance and Wednes-
day learned that Mrs. Porter Was pack
ing dry goods boxes in the house. Later
1t was known that she had the house
hold goods moved out and stored IN a
warehouse. Two trunks were taken to
the union station Keeping watch OF
these trunks all day the sheriff was
rewarded late in the afternoon, when
Mrs. Porter had. them checked to
Hampton on a ticket she had bought
for the same place Sheriff Edgar went
to Hampton on the evening train that
carried Mrs. Porter there.
Porter is Arrested.
Alighting from the train before 1t
had come to stop, the sheriff secreted
himself and later followed Mrs. Porter
toward town. Ahead of Mrs Porter
man stepped from doorway, and ap-
proa ched Mrs Porter, leaning toward
her. but not stopping. as tho ne hao
spoken to her and the children. Guess
ing from the mans actions that he
was Porter, Sheriff Edgar accosted him
when they met and arrested him.
Sheriff Reed was notified and took the
prisoner into his custody at the union
station.
Has Been Here Six Weeks.
Porter has lived here about six weeks.
The family came here from GrlnneIl.
and formerly lived at Newton 1T re-
quired a long hunt here to find the
family, altho information had been
sent here that the family had moved
from Grinnell The household goods
We're consigned from Grinnen to r. Z.
johnson. a fictitious name. in TINS city.
They were delivered to 500 South Sixth
avenue. and some time later moved TO
the Arson street house.
Sheriff Edgar learned that Porter had
been seen in Hampton for several days.
He had rented house there. the Key
of which he left at Hampton after his
arrest.
During recent months officers OF Des
Noines, Keokuk. and Dallas counties,
in addition to the sheriffs of Boone ana
Mailaska counties, have been searching
for Porter He gets the nickname
"Blacky" from his swarthy complexion
which. Is SO dark, that he might De
taken for a halfbreed.