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Show A GIANT HORSE THIEF. B Is Six Feet Six Inches Tall aud Has a Record. Jim Martin, a horse thief known throughout Nebraska, western Missouri and eastern Kansas as "Tennessee Jim," was arrested the other day in Kansas Kan-sas City by Detective Detect-ive Con O'Hara, the old veteran of the force who has fought crime and criminals for a quarter of a century. cent-ury. Martin had a couple of horses he was trying to sell. Shortly after JAMES MABTIX. he was locked up Constable Smith, of Platte City, Clay county, coun-ty, arrived, accompanied by W. H. Barber, a farmer ot Clay county, from whom the horses were stolen. They Identified Martin Mar-tin as the man they wanted and showed a warrant for his arrest. ' Martin, although only 23 years of age, is ; a tough of the most desperate kind. He ' stands 6 feat 6 inches in his stockings and Is magnificently proportioned. A year ago he was arrested in Smithville, Clay county, tor robbing a man named Al Moore. lie was sentenced to a term of imprisonment in the calaboose at Smithville, and three days after his incarceration succeeded in burning down the jail and making his escape. es-cape. He afterward fired the hotel in Smithville and nearly burned the entire town. He was suspected of many thefts of horses and burglaries in Clay county, but always evaded detection until now. Ho began work last spring as a hired hand on Barber's farm, and on a recent Sunday night, drawing his wages up to date and taking Barber's team, he decamped, reaching reach-ing Kansas City in the morning, only to be arrested half an hour afterward. When Constable Smith came for his prisoner, such was his fear that MartiD would escape that he borrowed a couple of leg sVackles from Chief Speers, put them on him and then securely tied his bands behind him with a rope strong enough for a boat's cable. |