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membered the filly and her breeding. 



"It may be well to say that I was led to consult 

 Mr. Gallagher by the repeated assurances of the 

 elderly men of the neighborhood that he knew more 

 abouti the Coffeen horses than any other man now 

 living, as he was not only a nephew, but the trusted 

 lieutenant of Mr. Coffeen, and handled his horses 

 for him in the early fifties. He was represented as 

 being an enthusiast and a successful rider and 

 trainer. 



''Mr. Gallagher, replying to an inquiry as to 

 whether he recalled the filly, said he remembered 

 her well; that she was by Irons' Cadmus, sire of 

 Pocahontas, and out of a mare by Jerry. I was un- 

 able to fully identify Jerry. But, judging from the 

 general character of Coffeen's stud, I expect to find 

 that he was a thoroughbred, or at least a highly- 

 bred running horse. 



The disappearance of a young man in south- 

 western Ohio, riding a sorrel mare with four white 

 legs and a blaze in her face, leaving home after an 

 estrangement serious enough to prevent his ever re- 

 turning, the appearance of a young man of about 

 the same age in eastern Ohio, two hundred and fifty 

 or three hundred miles away, the same fall riding 

 a mare of the same age and with the same peculiar 

 coloring, and the fact that he did not seem disposed 

 to talk about himself or the animal, make a chain of 

 circumstantial evidence that, in the absence of a 

 single fact pointing in any other direction, would 

 convince most persons that the two fillies were one 



