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A FARMER AND A HORSE JOCKEY. 
The Farmer Got Ahead. 
In 1910 I needed a horse very badly, and 
saw in the evening paper an advertisement 
of two horses. In the morning myself and 
son drove down to see them; 'found them in 
a barn on the corner of an alley, the house 
facing another street. I found a man in 
the barn who said the horses were his. He 
told me his mother wanted to go to Detroit 
to live, and he wanted to go along, so 
he would sacrifice the team for a quick 
sale. He had been hauling coal the Winter 
before, and now was out of work, and the 
horses were eating their heads off. I asked 
him the usual questions, were they sound 
and all right; he guaranteed them to be 
so. I wanted a plow and general-purpose 
horse to be leader; he told me the mare 
was. He brought the mare out; she was 
about seven or eight years old and in good 
condition so far as I could see. He took 
the mare out of the barn without any bridle, 
and moved her around the street. His price 
was $100. I offered him $125 ; he eventually 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKEH 
February 24, 
stable over town to try to find the first 
man. The dealer was put in jail. I went 
home from the market and went to work 
hoeing pickles, my man plowing same. 
When my wife wanted me to have this man 
arrested I put it up to him as being the 
man there at time of our coming; he de¬ 
nied it, and swore that he was not there 
and did not know the man nor ever saw 
him. All gave me false names. I was 
hoeing last row of pickles when my little 
boy came out to me and said a man 
and woman were at the house; they wanted 
to see me. I dropped hoe, told man to 
finish the job and went up to the house. 
There sat the dealer I had arrested in the 
morning with woman he introduced as his 
wife. He got up, took hold of my hand 
and wanted to shake. I asked him how 
and why he was there on my place and how 
did he know where I lived. He said he 
found out and asked me right away if I 
would settle and withdraw the suit if he 
gave me all of my money back. I told him 
it was up to the justice. His wife said the 
justice would not settle; also she said she 
was the one that wanted to settle the trou¬ 
ble ; that she knew the other man and 
could get the money from him I paid in 
the first place if I would sign a paper to 
stop prosecution. I told this man that I 
had him right where I wanted him, and 
he would have to do the talking and paying 
now. I told him if he denied now what I 
took my offer. I was to call that afternoon w ?; s , soing to say I would wipe up the earth 
between throe anti four o'clock to get the 2? AVd!? him £°8Sa 
mare. After dinner I hitched up to the spring about his name and about not knowing the 
wagon, took my wife along (which was a 
good thing), stopped at the bank, drew out 
the money and went down for the mare. 
Instead of going down Ludlow street I went 
by another parallel street, turned over to 
Ludlow on Joe street, and in turning the 
corner we saw two men sitting on the side¬ 
walk beside the barn. One was the man 
I dickered with, the other I did not know 
at that time, but he jumped up and ran in 
the yard behind the fence. 1 did not think 
anything of it at the time. The dealer 
brought out the mare; my wife looked her 
over; everything looked all right; put 
bridle on mare, paid man $125, and jumped 
in the wagon and told my wife to drive as 
fast as possible so as to get home and get 
to work. As we started away I saw the 
man’s other horse hitched to the corner of 
first man, and not being there when I got 
the first mare. I told him I knew that the 
first party was working for him; also that 
he was only a bait to catch the unwary 
for him.. He did not deny the assertion. 
I told him I would call up the justice and 
if he would wait on us I would come down 
town with him and see what we could do, 
which we did. The woman said she want¬ 
ed to straighten out this trouble and would 
pay me all the money received from me in 
the deal and pay the justice’s fees if lie 
would let us settle the thing, for she did 
not want her husband to go to the peni¬ 
tentiary. The justice listened to her, then 
he took down a law book and said : 
“Woman you are in this now as deep or 
deeper than your husband, for the law says 
anyone compromising a felony by paying 
money back fraudulently taken from anyone 
mans other horse hitched to the corner of is liable to $100 fine and 90 days in jail, 
the bain, but did not suspect treachery. I cannot do anything for you.” 
>\e went about two squares away, when the She sat there and cried and wrung her 
mare commenced to breathe so' hard and 
wheeze so loud you could hear her for one 
square away. I saw I was beaten, so told 
my wife to turn around and get back to 
the stable as quick as we were going away, 
hoping to catch, the rascal, but as we were 
turning around a man in a buggy called 
out to me and asked if I wanted to sell 
that horse. In fact, it was the same man 
we saw jump up and run back in the yard 
at the stable. I told him that I had just 
bought her and had been swindled, and was 
going back to catch the man I bought her 
from. He followed me back to the barn. 
I called a policeman, but the first man. had 
gone with the other horse and all his be¬ 
longings. 
The second man looked the mare over, 
told me she was wind-broken and had a 
rupture. He offered me $50 for the mare 
then or to trade for one he had hitched up 
in the rig. My wife recognized him then 
and wanted me to have him arrested, but 
I held off because I could not prove his 
identity with the deal, but he took me over 
to his stable in another part of the -ity and 
told me to pick out one that I s anted of 
seven or eight he had there, i p: ; cke<? a 
sorrel horse. He guaranteed the norse 
sound and all right. I paid him $10 to 
boot. Now here is where I got him; he 
guaranteed this horse sound and I saw his 
place of business, so I could locate him 
when wanted. We went back to the stable, 
exchanged horses and I went home. This 
was Thursday. Friday morning my man 
hitched up the team, hauled a load of ma¬ 
nure from town, and got home at dinner 
time. He said sorrel wanted to pull the 
whole load. That afternoon he hitched up 
the sorrel and he had heaves so badly he 
would not pull; then I saw I was done 
again. I went down town on a car and 
as I passed the street where the stable was 
located I looked out and saw the first man 
I had dealings with attending and watering 
the horses. I jumped off the car, did not 
stop it, ran in grocery on corner and 
asked grocery keeper to look out and see 
if he knew the man. He said he did not, 
but they had rented his barn, and had been 
there about two weeks. I then told him to 
look close and identify the man if I called 
him later on, 
I called the police; they sent me a man 
and we went to the barn, but in the mean¬ 
time the birds had flown ; no one there. We 
sat there two or three hours, but did not get 
them. Next morning being market, I told 
my man to ride sorrel horse down to town 
and I would come over from market and 
meet him at the stables of the dealer. I 
met him about 9 A. M. I went in the 
stable, found the dealer there and told him 
he had given me a heavy horse and I looked 
to him to make good. He laughed at me, 
but saw and heard his sorrel breathe; then 
he blamed it on me, said I fed dirty hay 
and all the other excuses he could think up, 
but I told him it was no use; he would 
have to be as good as his word. He made 
fun of me; then I got mad, but still I of¬ 
fered him to settle the deal by taking the 
$50 he offered me first and $10. I gave 
him in difference of two horses, he to keep 
both horses, mo to lose the difference, but 
he would not consent to it. 
Then he wanted me to take another 
horse, but I told him I would not have an¬ 
other of his horses for a gift. My man 
was standing in the doorway holding the 
sorrel horse; it had my bridle on. I stood 
and thought a minute, then told my man to 
take the sorrel horse in the barn, tie him 
beside another in the stall, which he did, 
then I called him. We jumped on the 
wagon and drove away. My man looked 
back and told me the dealer was whipping 
the horse out of the barn. I told him I 
did not care what he did with his horses, 
but we watched till someone hitched the 
horse to a post. Then I got the justice 
busy; told him all the circumstances and 
swore out warrants for the arrest of the 
parties concerned. The justice sent a con¬ 
stable with my man to identify the dealer 
and arrested him. I went back to the 
market and my business, but put up $15 
justice’s cost. Afterwards the justice sent 
for me to come over and identify the 
dealer; then my boy went with the con- 
_ _ _ wrung 
hands about 10 minutes. The justice told 
them their situation ; the husband faced the 
penitentiary and so did she, and he would 
get tlie other man too. She said : “He has 
left the State.” The justice said : “Is not 
the State of Ohio strong enough to bring 
him back? This is a State case of high¬ 
way robbery and you cannot get away or 
evade tho law.” 
Then the justice called up the prosecut¬ 
ing attorney and getting his consent to tha 
transaction, told her he gave them 10 min¬ 
utes to satisfy me, but it only took 60 
seconds. She gave me $135; he gave me 
$15, justice’s costs. It was dark. He 
wanted to Take me home in his buggy, buf 
I said no, I would not ride with half a 
block any how with $150 in my pocket. I 
went back to shake the justice’s hand. He 
told me to shake hands with mvself. 
After paying me the dealer said to me: 
“Where is my sorrel horse?” I said: “I 
do not know; I saw you whip him out of 
your barn when we drove away,” but I 
guessed he could be found at a iivery sta¬ 
ble, for when I went home I saw the sor¬ 
rel horse tied fast yet and telephoned to 
the police wlieer he was and to take care 
of him. I said to him: “Your horse has 
my bridle on and on Tuesday I will bring 
back your halter and demand mv bridle.” 
He said some unprintable words and I left 
and went home. 
On Tuesday morning I called at the barn. 
He was not there; stableman asked me 
what I wanted. I told him my bridle, and 
there was the halter. He said : “Yes, the 
boss said if you called I should give you 
this bridle as quick as possible.” In about 
two weeks’ time this man left Dayton. O., 
and I have not seen or heard of him since. 
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