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A yoTung man i lodd Ln tfae eouuty jíü...

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
March
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

ALLEGED HORSE THIEF ARRESTED AND HAS CONFESSED TO OFFICERS

A young man is lodged in the county jail and was arraigned Monday on the charge of horse stealing. He confessed to officers to stealing two horses so that he will probably have a chance to hold a session with the circuit Judge. He was brought in on the car at 6:30 Saturday evening and a big crowd had gathered to see the fellow and the crowd was an angry one. However the officers rushed their prisoner to the jail and locked him up. The fellow acts perfectly sane.

Marshal Warner of Ypsilanti arrested Ernest Forsyth, son of Fred Forsyth, a farmer, living between Saline and Ypsilanti Saturday afternoon, on the charge of stealing the horses taken from Ann Arbor Thursday and Friday evenings.

A 2-year-old bay belonging to Homer Nixon of Dixboro, was stolen from Ann Arbor Friday night, and Saturday morning Forsyth sold the animal at Inkster for $50, taking a check which he cashed in the village for $45.   While in Chief Warner's office in YpsiIanti Saturday afternoon be confessed to having had in his possession Friday the horse taken at Ann Arbor Thursday night and abandoned near the Ainsworth farm Friday afternoon.

Notwithstanding that appearances were against him, Forsyth put up a bold front, and denied his guilt.  When asked about the horse he was trying to sell Friday, he said that Thursday night a stranger inquired of him if he knew of any one who wanted to buy a horse; that the ensuing conversation resulted in his meeting the man the following morning and taking charge of the animal in the expectation of being able to sell it, and that as he was disappointed in this particular, he returned it in the afternoon, after which he did not see the horse.

In explanation of this connection with the horse he sold at Inkster that morning, he conjured up the same stranger, who he said, brought him the animal early in the morning, with the offer of a liberal commission if he would dispose of it.

The young man kept up his nerve wonderfully, holding his head in the midst of the volley of questions hurled at him in Chief Warner's office, but once, while Warner was in the corridor outside, he broke down and cried, but he soon recovered himself and thereafter maintained a perfect composure.  The present whereabouts of the convenient stranger he did not reveal, and the police made no effort to conceal their skepticism as to his existence in flesh and blood.

Forsyth is about 19 years of age and is a large, well set up young fellow of good appearance, and dressed in better clothes than affected by the ordinary country lad.  He is slow in speech but from his answers to the officers evidently possesses a keen mind that makes its decisions rapidly, for he was never at a loss for a word or an explanation.

He came to the public attention a short time ago through being arrested by his father for the alleged theft of one of the farm colts, but sympathy in general was his way, for evidence was to the effect that the animal had been given him by the father himself.

It is believed Forsyth is also responsible for the two horses taken at Ann Arbor earlier in the month.