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Show V . ale the festivities were in progress at the lake on Saturday, a horse ami ear Udongmg to Job,; W.lkins was stolen trom the racetrack. John and h.s wife wenfto the lake on the street s,'l!'rte:;rf T i"", tWO "f "' thiMrei, o tloekin the afternoon. Arrivintr-.t the racetrack, ami finding the r a im practicable to the resortthev 'L h .-rse to the fence and walked thenst ot the way. Immediately after the children left ;tl,e can, a. ramp. Htt.ng by the track, untied the hor4 and seiziiiL- thf H.,o. .1. eral hours elapsed before the thief was I d.si-overcl. The othYers were at once se on the track of the missing h ,r" e ( Olhcer II ill ami John Wilkins took the i thev' rVVe, 1 t(' ''i.'"' from there thev took a buggy a,.d drove north 1 .ey soon ran across the horse ami huggv m als, the thief, who proved to. be 'ad about 17 years old. and giy n? , , i , ', w""t;"t oac-K to rrovcw and lodged m the county jail In an interview with a DiseATcitr eporter yesterday, he stated that he-did he-did not know just exactly what he aid the horse fr, but he w as intending U Co to Montana, and thought he could make it with the horse better than (eat ing his way on the railroad, lie did not have any money, and did not know what to do to get to Montana. Hence, I tns reasons for taking the horse. Ile said after he started that he tied th i horse where ha ,.,t 1 . - i"iuu i..r, anu tnen I I lay. own and went to sleep. jje ' I awake about dayli ht yesterday morn- ing and started on his way rejoic.ng, w ien the officers put a stop to his proposed pro-posed tPip v " The prisoner appears to verv voung and does not seem to realize the posU tion in whicli he is placed. He is ouite unconcerned. 1 e ' : - - - . t " ' T- ) u ' |