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ARREST MAN
AND Wife
For Breaking Into Warehouse
And Stealing Hides
Police Nab Couple At B. 8 0.
Station Thursday Night
Wanted In Delaware County
On Serious Charge
Woman COnfGSSGS, But Man
Is Exceedingly Mum
Had Disposed Of Their.BOOty
At Mansfield
Had Disposed Of Their. Booty
At Mansfield

a man believed to be Edward
Franks and his wife, Pearl Franks,
are locked up in cells at the Knox
county Jail and are being held for the
authorities of Delaware county, it be-
ing alleged that they stole a large
number of furs and hides from a
warehouse in Delaware. The couple
was arrested by Officers Alsdorf and
Taylor at the B. & o. station shortly
before 10 o'clock Thursday night.
Franks and his wife have been In
Knox county for several months.
They erected small hut on the Coe
farm near Mt. Liberty and have been
making their home there. They were
frequent visitors to Mt. Vernon and
two or three weeks ago were brought
mp in policce court, IL being believed
that the woman was a man and mas
querading as woman.
The couple left their hut near Mt
Liberty Wednesday morning and with
their horse and old wagon drove
hat city claim that the man and wo-
man broke into warehouse and
stole 80 skunk hides, mink fur and
fox fur Afterwards they started
overland, but when they arrived at
point between Delaware and Sparta
they broke into a barn and stole a
horse This animal they attached to
their wagon and led their horse be-
hind the wagon They went through
Sparta and after leaving the village
they unhitched the horse they had
again attached their horse to the wag-
on. Upon reaching Frederlcktown
Thursday afternoon, they placed
their horse in livery barn and
boarded the o'clock train for Mans
field, where 1t Is alleged that they
sold forty or more of the hides. They
concealed the remainder Of the hides
and furs and so far they have not
been located.
After selling the stun in Mansfield,
the couple decided to return to Fred
on, but they got on the b. g. o. fast
line Thursday evening. which did not
stop AT Frederlcktown. and were car.
ried through to Mt. Vernon. Franks
and his wife intended to take the
.9;52 train to Frederlcktown and Sc.
cure their rig, but were arrested at
the B. a. o. station shortly before the
arrival of the train, word having come
to the police department Thursday
evening that the couple was wanted
In Delaware for The theft of the hides.
About II o'clock Thursday night
the couple was taken TO the mayors
Office and was given sweating out
by Chief Parker aud the police OH
GERS The woman talked at some
length, but the man had very little to
say. The woman FIRST stated that the
mans name was john ManRis aud
that her name was Tillle Maugis and
that they we're married IN Buffalo, N.
y. last July Shortly afterwards she
said that the mans real name was
Edward Franks aud her name Pearl
Franks She said their home was Ia
Wooster, o.. although they have been
In Knox county for several months
Franks Is about 27 years Of age and
his wife younger The woman ac
knowledged that they drove their rif
through from MI. Liberty to Delawar,
and that she assisted her husband IN
breaking the lock OF the warehous,
door and that she helped him stea
the hides
In her confession to Chief Parker
and the officers, the woman state,
that some time ago she and her hus
band visited Hunts aud made a raj,
dhere on building stealing sael