The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-24
YOUTHFUL BANDITS
STEAL TWO HORSES
Police Find Case RIvalIna Moving
Picture Thriller Last Night
In Double
Arrest.
LEFT KEoKUK SATURDAY
Took One Horse and Buggy From
Here and Then Appropriated
Saddle Horse at
Alexandria.
LEFT KEOKUK SATURDAY

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twelve years old, endeavored to out
do Jesse James and his tribe Of
blood curdlers Saturday night. The
pair are now being held and are fac
Ing the reform school as result Of
their escapade. Merle Santo, IL years
old and George Lehener, Is years OLD
are the youths who pulled the old
time wild west thriller.
According to the story told by the
police, Warnum A. Krumm who lives
out on the johnson street road re-
ported Saturday night that his horse
had been stolen from In front OF a
grocery store on Seventh and Main
streets. Krunlm was In barber shop
at the time. The horse was a chestnut
sorrel mare and was hitched to a
light buggy. Krumm's coat and box
OF shells were In the buggy. The
police could find no trace Of the horse
that night.
Sunday Krumm offered reward OF
$25 for the finding of his horse. Chief
Of Police Kenney In the meantime
was working the telephone wires and
had succeeded In getting trace OF
the boys at Winchester, Ill. They
were seen there during the morning
and had been inquring the read to
Canton. Mo. They were driving a
brown horse then. This complicated
matters.
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the lads had spent the night In a
school house near Winchester and
that they had two horses with them
at the time, driving one and leading
another. The one they were leading
was a saddle horse.
Admit Second Theft.
Last night when arrested, the boys
admitted they took the horse from a
rack at Alexandria, and drove on to
Winchester with the two horses and
there spent the night Sunday morn
ing they started on to Canton, as they
thought, 1t turned out, however,
they had got on the wrong road and
were coming back to Keokuk. They
unhitched the horses five miles this
side of Canton, when they found the
horse they were driving was getting
tired, and put the saddle horse into
the shaves. They threw Krllmm's
overcoat and saddle from the other
horse on the deserted animal and
tied 1t up to fence
Coming this side OF the Des Moines
river bridge, the boys abandoned
their horse and fed. The horse was
later found in the Willows just below
the Taber lumber yard.
| It was six o'clock last night when
Chief Kenney was given clue to
the boys by the men who said they
had two boys who inquired II they
i had heard OF horse having been
stolen, saying they had found one on
| the road.
| Both Boys Picked Up.
Following the clue Chief Kenney
picked up George Lehener who lives
over restaurant on Third street
where his step-father is cook. The
boy told part OF the story and told
where the horse was left down in
/ the lumber yards. Together with
Chief Kenney the boy took the CHEF
to the spot and the horse was recow
cred and brought to Kokuk.
Later in the evening Santo was
found and he was taken by Officer
Wilson in an auto in the search Oh
Krumm's horse which was somewhere
on the road to Canton
Eight miles this side Of Canton
they found Kr,mm's horse PICKING
IT'S way towards home. The saddle
and Its masters overcoat were on It.
The horse was left with farmer and
the owner went after 1t this morning