Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-08-23
A MAN, A MULE AND
 A CHECK FOR $50
D. X. CALDWELL PURCHASED ANIMAL THAT AFTERWARDS PROVED TO BE STOLEN
 PROPERTY.
Sheriff Brewster and the Graphic Gave WRrning.-Henry Marx Com.
 pany Casied Check.

pany Cashed Cheek.
 Like the pardon that came too late the Graphic's printed warning yester- day morning to local stock dealers not to purchase mule that had been stolen from a resident of Warren, Bradley county, on Thursday, was re- ceived by D. A. Caldwell, the West Barraque street liveryman, several hours after the animal had been pur- chased by him and now MT. Caldwell and Sheriff Brewster are making an effort to locate Carl Benton, small white man, who is charged with the | theft of the mule and who sold the animal to Mir. Caldwell Thursday aft- ernoon at about , o'clock.
 And on top of it all there is likely to be lawsuit over a check given by Mir. Caldwell to Benton and which was cashed by the Henry Marx Con- pany, after the mule deal was made, for MT. Caldwell has stopped payment of the check at the Peoples Bank.
 Thursday afternoon at about 4 o'clock Sheriff Brewster received a telephone message from the city mar shal at Warren, requesting him to be on the lookout for small white man with a mule, complete description
 
 It was said that the man had stolen the mule from Warren and was SUD- posed to be on his way to Pine Bluff. Sheriff Brewster requested the Graphic to publish the details and give a description of the animal, be- lieving that when the paper was seen Friday morning by stock dealers here it might aid in the arrest of the guilty man and the recovery of the animal. The city marshal led the sheriff to believe that the mule had just been stolen when the message was sent and Sheriff Brewster figured that the man and mule could not reach Pine i Bluff before Friday morning. Bu' 1 the mule evidently travelled fast foi it arrived here with it's illegal owner at about , o'clock, that afternoon. The man, who gave his name as Carl Ben ton. and who represented that ht worked at the plant of the Arkansas Short Leaf Lumber Company here sold the animal to D. h. Caldwell fol sa0. Later he turned up at the Henr! Marx Company with the $50 checl given him by the liveryman and pur chased goods amounting to 70 cents When he presented the check M. L Elkins says he went to nearby stor' and telephoned Mir. Caldwell to ascer tain if the check was good. MT. Cald we'll told him it was and that he coul' cash it. Mir. Elkins says that he toll Mir. Caldwell that the man looKe' suspicious to him and remarked Una if the mule proved to be stolen woul' the check be good. He said that MT Caldwell jokingly told him that if thu mule was stolen he would nave U beat him to the bank" and they boti enjoyed a laugh over the phone ove the incident.
 To make a long story short, Elkln cashed the check. The Grapnl brought the news of the stolen mul' to both Mir. Caldwell and Mir. Elklns Mir. Caldwell immediately telephones Sheriff Brewster that he had purchas ed the mule and Mir. Elkins found tha the payment of his check had been or dered stopped at the bank when was presented. Now Sheriff brews ter is preparing to return the mule U it's owner at Warren. leaving MI Caldwell and MT. Elkins to flght out over the $30.
 Sheriff Brewster received tele phone message last night from w. J Hudson, stating that early yes'erda! morning an unidentified man brok' into a barn owned by Si Tisdali. negro. near Fairfield, and stole horse. He escaped with the animal Sheriff Brewster believes that th' man is the same one who stole tnt mule at Warren and he has notiiiee officers in neighboring towns U watch out for him.
 
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