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affairs. A few days later a man called on me in 

 Hartford. He asked what information was required 

 to trace a horse which was raced under two names. 

 I told him. He handed me a card on which the names 

 ''Harry S" and "Thorp" appeared, and with a bow 

 departed. 



Within an hour a telegram was dispatched to U. 

 C. Blake of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, requesting him to 

 send me from Marion, Iowa, a man who could 

 identify Harry S., 2:11%. Two days later the man 

 arrived in Hartford. I went with him to White River 

 Junction, Vt., where Thorp was then owned. As soon 

 as he saw him, he said he was Harry S. 



Later it was learned that I. A. Chase of Brandon, 

 Vt., told Homer Brewster that while he was buying 

 cattle in Iowa he saw a fast pacer which was a 

 duplicate of Thorp. The horse was Harry S. Later 

 on when Ed Allen came east to work for James 

 Butler at East View, N. Y., he brought Harry S. 

 with him. Brewster heard of it. He bought the horse. 

 So that no one would be aware of the transfer, 

 Brewster attended to the matter personally, even to 

 the extent of going for the horse and riding with 

 him in the car. 



Harry S. was unloaded one station short of his 

 destination. Brewster located him with a farmer 

 and went home on the evening train. The next morn- 

 ing he hitched Thorp to a sleigh and went for a 

 ride. That evening Harry S. was in Thorp's stall, 

 while; the latter was shot and buried in the woods. 



Brewster's wife. Chase, and a lawyer in Burling- 



