Show LOOSES A HORSE owner chases thief thief pursues owner thief fired upon au an estmay horse abich was sold so at auction a short time ago vas purchased ay by iy israel barlow jr since buying it lie lias has noticed persons resembling tramps hanging around liis his during tile the jay day aud and even cooling coming to the house pretending to want nant to buscha some thin t but tiley they always alwang had thoi tho i hats pulled down over their faces si 9 that one could not get gel to sex sev their features monday evening john barlow israels brother brollier had tiep tie alie lie I 1 horse orae in the stable or the yard and a little ittle later in the evening g was coming towards the house on a nother another horse anti anil just as lie got to the corner of of their lot he heard or saw a horse coming from the direction of the stable lie ile tried to head b ea d the animal and drive it back but it turned to the east along the street that passes lamoni Hol holbrook brooka residence lie he pursued it and soon found to his hia surer surprise ise that there ws a rider on oi I 1 it who had biad concealed himself by laying down on tile the bursa As soon as apjohn john saw what was up lie thought he be would try and make in 2 lie the thief believe that he was not alone by calling for boys to come on oil the chase continued to the terminus of that street john sl ghaly in the rear at that point they turned north john below be lowthe the bridge and the other rider kept tile the road now john came close up to tins the stranger so much so that tile the latter drew a pistol on john and threatened to shoot him if he did not stop but however he kept on going they rode along the main road for a 6 short distance when the thief jumped from his horse and made his escape by running through the fields the horse was taken home by mr barlow and later the same eveking eve was brought up here and put in lamoni lamo ni calls barn and locked in the following wednesday night john started up town on another horse and had just left the house whon some one on horse back took after him he rode towards the bottoms then turned up towards the gristmill grist mill and finally made his escape by stopping his horse behind a brush brash patch and letting the str auger rush on by about 2 friday morning john barlow and george parrish who were sleeping in lamoni calls barn were aroused by a noise made by some one trying to open the door the stranger soon learned that the in masters were awake and left but soon came back and looked in through throng 11 a small window near where the boys were sleeping john saw him and took his little twenty two caliber rifle and made for the window and just as the stranger was getting over ever the correl fence fired the stranger uttered something that made the boys believe that he w was as hurt but nothing was seen of him in the morning mr parrish says that lie was not fully awake when the stranger came baci back the second time but heard john shoot 4 the horse has been taken out of the county and this will perhaps save further trouble |