CHASE HORSETHIEF NO HORSE STOLENAil that prevented the local police department from making a coup lu catching a horse thief last evening Wit* the very relevant fact that there was no auch thing. Just as the Chief and other uiuutn hers of the force were cou tom plating a quiet iuuI uneventful evening vl'h nothing to Uo but to solUoquiec on the dulL uese ot the tlines——tlng-a-llng and over th»* phone from Morris ville came a full fledged horse thief storyTile description 0f the missing team fitted that of aii outfit that luid pasted the station some time be fore and without a minute lost a local taxi was charioted :uid the Chose Wits on. Up hill and down dale ap«Hl the avenging arm of the law, tom Lug Within striking distant-* of the susipecU) near Croydon. I tut alas tar visions of home t hie v re,and eventful arrests to be related again nud again in the long future, the driver was likewise ow ner of the .earn, well known and above reproach Kveu tefore the dramatic culmination of »the chase, the Chief juwl received the message that the alarm from Mor rlsvllle wim false and that the horses were in the hands of the own era t