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CHAMPION THIEF.Ar-‘Fred Ruprecht's Modest Claimfor Fame.He Admits that He hag Stolen Hundreds of Horses and Been Too Intimate with Several Young kadies.A telegram from Chicago, speaking of Fred Ruprecht, Jr., of Wooster, who was arrested in Cleveland and taken to Chicago on several charges of criminal as3aulti and horse-3tealmg, says: “Ru-precht modestly claims to be the champion horse-thief of the world.”Bupreeht was brought before a police magistrate, and was confronted by sev* eral girls, who claim to have been victims of assault by him,and by men who think Bupreeht stole their horses. Re-precht told Capt. Ptaeek that ho had been stealing horses for five years, and-that he figured his profits at between $75,000 and $100,000, While at Attrill at. station five young women identified him as their assailant of last summer, hie vice, it is said, being to engage a woman for domestic service and drive away with her, usually in a stolen buggy. Bupreeht had no denials to make to any of the charges against him. He gave a list of persons in Chicago from whom he said he had stolen horses and vehicles. He faced J uetice Martin Monday on 10 charges of horsestealing, and was held to the criminal court in bonds aggregating $5,000.When he was was in jail in this city last fall he claimed that he was incapable of crime, but he ia evidently going to secure all the notoriety possible, now that he knows there’s no chance for escape. It is hard for any one who saw the man in this city to understand how he attracted ladies, as a more repelling demeanor is hard to imagine.
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Massillon Item
Massillon, Ohio, US
Sat, Dec 18, 1897
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