Captured Two Horse Thieves

Sheriff Brenner has again captured sorae horse thieves. This time the horse was stolen, December 16, from the farm of the late Orson A. Sober of Superior. It was driven to Chatham, Ont., and put in a livery stable. Sheriff Brenner afived there Christmas, on track of the horse, and shipped it back to its owner. The thief who drove the horse has not yet been captured, although word was left to catch him if he came back for the horse, which had been in the stable two or three days. Christmas eve he arrived and the livery-stable man laid hands on him and attempted to hold him till an officer appeared. A struggle ensued, and the colored man made off minus his hat. The sheriff has since arrested two employés of the Sober farm, Joseph I Pierce and Williatn Jackson. Jackson is the man who attempted to identify the man who drove the horse to Chatham, so that he could sell the horse. At the time the horse was stolen Jackson worked on the Sober farm. The plan for the stealing was concerted between the three. It has not yet been decided whether Pierce will be held on the charge of horse stealing or of bezzling the proceeds of a load of wheat. The colored employés seem to have comspired to defraud Mrs. Sober immediately upoa the death of her husband, which occurred less than a month ago. It was originally planned to steal the horse the night after Mr. Sober's death, but the plan was given up at that time. Jos'eph Pierce came to Mrs. Sober right after her husband's death, saying that it paid to be honest, and banded her a dollar. Mrs. Sober asked, "What is this for, Joe?" His answer ran nearly in these words: "I earned that while working for you. I met a farmer down in Ypsilanti who had been trying to sell his wheat, and nobody would give him more than forty cents for it. I told him if he'd give me a dollar I'd sellit for him for more. He must load it in my wagon, because any wheat drawn in Sober's wagon sold for more. I sold the wheat for 54 cents, and the farmer gave me a dollar." The wheat sold came from the Sober farm, and the mythical farmer will never be found. There was a fourth colored man in with Pierce in this deal, Piérce not selling the wheat in person.