Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-21
CONFESSES, is HELD TO DISTRICT
COURT, FOR THEFT OF COPE
HORSE AND BUGGY.
Returns TO THIS CITY ON
PONY STOLEN AT BAXTER
Officers Suspect Connection Between
Two. and Boy Admits Stealing AMI
NAL at Baxte-AIso confesses TAX
ina Cope Horse-Sister Grac. III in
Bed of Nervous Breakdown.

Robert Knab the 15-yearod son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris knab, 800 South
Eighth avenue who. with his sister
Grace. ran away from home last Mon
dav night. confessed to County Attorney
a. c. DAILY this morning that he stole
the. w A. Cope horse and buggy from
in front of the Methodist church the
nigh, he and his sister lef, town.
This was but one of two horse steal
ings that Young Knab admitted he COM
1nitted during his weeks escapade. He
returned TO this city Sunday morning
on a ponv ne stole al Baxter Saturday
night.
L Is H cid to District Court.
Following his confession knao
waived preliminary examination in
Mayor Millards court on a charge OF
stealing Cope's horse which Cope nled
and was held to the district court. He
viii be arraigned before Judge Brad
shaw Tuesday, and has agreed TO plead
guilty and throw himself On the mercy
Of the court. With him Will be ar
raigned his sister, Grace, but no charge
has been filed against her, and none
may be. The disposition of her case
will be at the discretion OF the court.
Find Second Stolen Horse.
The pony that Knab confessed he
s1oIa al Baxter. was found roaming the
s,rt cts Sunday morning at 10 O'Clock
The animal was saddled and bridled
ana showed! evidence of having been
ridden hard.
Later 1t was learned that young
kneb had reached home and the o1h-
GERS suspe cted a connection between
the arrival of young knab and the
/ finding of the horse. When hnao was
turned over by his father to the custody
of Sheriff Edgar. il was not long untli
the boy had not only sdmitted the
taking Of the pony from the streets OF
Baxter Saturday night. but confessed
taking the w A. Cope horse and buggy
last Monday night when knao and MS
sister left the city.
Owner Of Horse Found.
Sheriff Edgar went TO work at once
in an effort TO find the owner OF the
Baxter horse. and thru the sheriff OF
Jasper county learned that the animal
belonged to John T Smith, a farmer
living one and one-half miles west OF
Baxter. Smiths brother, Vernon
old. TO Baxter. tied him to a hitching
post and missed him when he started
10 return home about 10 o'clock. The
nany had been driven hard. and was
almost tagged out when Officer Breckel
found him on South Third avenue
smith came 10 the city sunday night
and returned home today with his pony.
after learning that young knab had
confessed and had been held TO the
local court.
Tells of Theft.
Young KnaD says ne left Des Moines
on a Great Western train Saturday
night. beating his way. He was put
off the train by trainmen at Ira. anu
walked 10 Baxter. There he took the
pony and rode it home He was seen
in Marietta about daylight. and upon
reaching a point near the soldiers
home turned the pony loose
Young Knab says he would not have
returned home had he thought any
one would know about his having
taken the Cope horse. he said ne
didn't suppose the horse would be
missed.
chris Knab. the boys father. who
has blamed his son with being respon-
sih]e for coaxing his sister Grace to
accompany him TO Des Monies was
very angry when the boy showed up
and Jumped on him rough shod. l ne
boy confessed taking the cope morse
and the horse at Baxter. and the iath-
or Immediately turned his son over to
the sheriff.
"Packed" Huge Revolver.
when the boy left home he was
armed with huge 44-calioer revolver.
ma
en.d 10 give him away while me
two we're in the outskirts of Des
Moines. young Knab fired at the man
twice, The boy said he only shot to
brighten the man. and not TO hit him.
Young Knab turned the revolver
over to his father when he reached
home. and the latter was instructed To
deliver il over to the county attorney
this forenoon.
While Sheriff Edgar. knab and his
daughter Grace were riding on the
1 train that brought them from Des
Moines Saturday evening, the boy
Robert Knab hoped the train. and
\ was on the same train until porter
put him off.
Grace knab III.
Grace Knab. sister Of Robert. who
| accompanied her brother out of this
4 CITY last Monday night, drove with
him in the Cope rig to Nevada, where
the horse gave out and was aband-
oned then walked to Anles, and took
an interurban car there to Des Moines,
is i'll at her fathers home, suffering
nervous breakdown. The excitemen,
/ the girl has passed thru during the
I past few days, incidental to her arrest
and detention in Des Moines because
she was masnuerading in boys cloth
ing has proved too much. for the girl.
She is confined to her bed.