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COOK’S CAPTORS.Bell Moon’s Hopefai Son, “Bije,” Gobbled Up in Minnesota, and Brought to Baa Claire, jSheriff Cook returned on Sunday from his long and faithful seajrch for the thieves who stole the horses from Fletcher and Wyman. From. Galea* vilie, where they sold Fletcher’s horse and bought a buggy, the thieves struck for the Mississippi river at Winona, where Moon crossed with the horse and buggy while Frank Shepherd, his more wiley partner, took a skiff a lit-tie farther up. At Winona the}' sold their rig and separated. Moon, with the horse, started toward Spring Valley, while. Shepherd went in another direction. When near that place Moon sold the horse to the deputy sheriff of the county for $46, receiving I So in cash. He concluded however j that lie would push on and not wait ; for tne balance. He smuggled him-I self into an empty box car: on a I freight train, and reached .Wells,| about 140 miles west of La Crosse, on i Saturday morning, tired and hungry, j Here he was recognized and arrested,! fn the meantime Sheriff Cook con-1 tinued the pursuit and arrijved at i Wells soon after and took charge of the prisoner. He reaceed- Eau Claire in safety and lodged “Bijc in the county jail on Sunday afternoou. When he entered, the young i man’s father, Dell Moon, who is confined on .t serious charge, was a good deal suprised. Doubtless he was astonished that a young man who had enjoyed the advantages of good : moral training uuder the parental roofshould turn out so badly. | It is understood that Dell will make it warm for Shepherd if he ever gets an opportunity. As young Moon acknowledges his guilt he will go over the road at an early day, a rather bad begining for a youjh of nineteen.
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Eau Claire News
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Sat, May 03, 1884
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