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party. The horse was shipped east and sold for 

 freight charges at Kansas City. Later on he was sent 

 to New York, where he was driven on the speedway 

 to pole with Tar Tartar, another outlaw. 



Tar Tartar 



At one time Tar Tartar, alias Little Joker, was 

 used as a medium to win a few dollars by Pliny Grov- 

 er of Moravia, N. Y. Pliny met the man who controlled 

 him at Bradford, Pa., during a meeting at which P. 

 Mulqueen started Norval M. While Tar Tartar and 

 Norval M. were on the track, Grover noticed that it 

 was almost impossible to tell which was which. They 

 had the same white markings while both of them 

 looked alike and had the same way of going. 



The next week at Hornell, N. Y., Norval M. was 

 injured while being led from a car. He was shipped 

 home. Before leaving, Mulqueen told Grover that his 

 horse was entered and paid up through a New Eng- 

 land Circuit and he would be compelled to loose his 

 entrance fees, as it was then too late to declare out. 



As soon as Grover was satisfied that Mulqueen's 

 horse was turned out, he looked up the Tar Tartar 

 people and made arrangements to get their pacer to 

 fill Norval M.'s engagements. He slipped a cog, how- 

 ever, by changing his own name to F. H. Howe, as 

 it was not many days before he met Henry Pope, 

 who knew him'. Right away Pope suspected that the 

 horse was not as represented when his owner was 

 sailing under an alias. A telegram from P. Mul- 

 queen anchored Grover as it was an easy matter for 

 him to show the genuine Norval M. 



