The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-05
MI. Samples Sister
By NJ QUAD
Copyright. 1915. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.
By M. QUAD

l was serving my first aud only tern
of sheriff In an lndiaBa county when
a smart looking aged man who gave
the name OF Samples arrived ut the
county seat and gave Out that he was
looking around tor n site for large
factory. He was provided with lei
tiers OF recommendation and the ar o'
Il man Of business and soon mad IN"
two bankers in the town and other
business men Interested in his project
His factory was to make Il new KIM
OF cloth out OF what he called Persian
hemp He nad samples Ut the cioth
to show, and ii could be made and
sold at 4UO per cent profit. Samples
himself would put $JW.utO into the
enterprise. but he wanted the town u
subscribe SotW.UOO additional 50 as to
make ii II home affair
On the second night of samples ar
rival In our town II fine morse WAS
stolen iron, Il citizen. During the nr>t
weeks stay more horses were run oil
| In three weeks time twelve Of the
best horses in our township were tax
en- As sheriff ! was not Idle for an
hour nfter the first horse was taken
Even If ! was little green myself as
an officer | mad Two or three consta
bles and deputies who were old hands
ut the business Some Of the horses
we traced Il few miles. always headed
tor the Ohio river. but the thieves
were slick fellows and covered their
tracks SO well that not horse was
recovered
One day while ! was shivering In
my boots aud expecting 10 bear that
the thirteenth horse had been stolen q
flash OF tight came to me. Every
horse taken mad gone south by Ger.
tain road. AT IA certain point all trace
mad been lost Ten miles to the south
OF us was II big huckIeberry swamp OF
1000 acres II was n wilderness and
had only been explored by hunters II
was Il big tangie. full Of snakes ana
wildcats, and even berry pirkers took
good care not to penetrate too far. 1t
flashed over me that the stolen horses
instead OF being run out of the state
had been currallpd In this swamp
To wait until the hue and cry were
over Within two hours I mad started
for the swamp. accompanied ny II con
stable. By pure good nck after n
tramp of halt u day we came upon n
trait showing the huOf prints OF horses.
and, following u To the very center or
the swamp. we came upon the whole
twelve stolen animals. Feed had been
brought IN to them by another trail.
II was n tine plant" we uncovered.
There were two men TO take care OF
the horses One OF them was a black-
smith and he mad forge and dozens
Of borseshOes As the animals were
with the shoes reversed and thus de
ceive us IN ease we struck II trail. We
made II cautious apprOach. but IN spite
OF uS the two men got away. We
scarcely regretted II, however. in view
OF the capture OF the third one, who
had just arrived II was MI. Samples
the flax cloth man. the factory man,
the man with letters OF introduction
Yes. sir. ~ mad arrived to give his
subordinntes directions. and as he fled
with the others he trlpped and felI, and
we were enabled to overhaul him, lie
didn't even blum We had got him NJ
pat that he could not say anything. In
his packets were letters sufficient to
convict him twice over, and his game
was up
You know what human nature Is In
II siItnii town ! hHd been maligned
and abused without stint tor failing to
capture the horse thieves Now that
| had got NJ the stolen horses III Il
bunch and the nurse thief in addition
nothing was 500 good for me. ! was
called u hero and all that and got q
serruHde from III. band and had bon.
fires riidre ~ my honor. The arrest
of SanPl.~ was II Ihundprciap. bui the |
public sp'n got over ITS establishment
ma itnun punishment OF the law. He
was "N mined. COMMITTED for trial, and I
! To- f care To give MIN the strongest
cell ~ the county Jan. rhe man gave
me no irpnhir After recovering his /
cheek = lir'le NJ claimed that he would /
ir able Ia prove his entire innocence
before II jury, aud he was So CHEEKY |
and good natnred that | came to like .
him. lie mad three months to wait .
for the circuit court. aud he made no .
move In regard To lawyers or witnesses
until halt the time had expired. BY
that time the public had lost most OF
Its Interest in the case.
One day Samples annHInced to me
hat his sister would soon arrive to see
abont getting him a lawyer and so
forth, and day or two later chs, caIlad