Show FORMER IN THEFT GAS CASE Ole Hanson Bans of I W W Charged With Stealing Horse LOS A ANGELES GELES May 21 01 21 Hanson war ar time mayor maor ma or of o Seattle and now a a Los Angeles real estate operator made readY to defend i himself against af n a charge chargo of oC horse hors stealing tiled filed In Pasadena justice court by Clar- Clar Clarence Claronce once ence W V Basten Batten of oC Sierra Madle Madie a suburb After having been arraigned on the horse theft charge chare and re- re released released leased un under 1000 hail ball pending his hi preliminary next Thursday the tho former Seattle mayol Inquired whether hether the old ol California law providing a death penalty for horse thieve thle was still In effect Assured that this statute had been old for halt half a n century he breathed a sigh of at o relief and n explained tho the horse Imbroglio In li which he e found himself as folIo follow fot- fot Io s I I am nm charged charted with Ith stealing my own oan 0 n horse he ho said ald WI When en I I came here hero from Seattle I ship ship- shipped shipped pod ped the flue tl 0 ponies ponte one of oC them a strawberry roan named Golien Soon afterward some one stole tol Golden and for 18 It months ne e searched for tor the animal In aln Then last lat Saturday I saw the th horse In a a vacant lot at Madre Madr I called him by name and anch he pulled up his stake slake and cam call came cameto to me I sought Mr Bisten Buten the pur- pur purported purported purported ported and he told me nr ho he h had bought Golden from a n man manIn manin marIn In Flint Rl Ridge who had bad pur- pur purchased purchased purchased chased It from a Mexican Melcan who saId he h got rot It from n a boy He turned the horse hore over to me mc but bul asked m my aid In reco recovering the money he h had paid for tor It lAter apparently he changed chanced hi his for tor the th next thing I knew tie he had sworn to a complaint log Ing chargIng chare me with stealing the th horse home hors It It is 19 I with sincere sincer jO joy loy that I learn the death J penalty for this offense is Ii I no longer looser in existence op 00 |