| Transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer from microfilm
of the Calhoun Chronicle dated 6/11/1895.
Last Thursday, about 2:30 o'clock, p.m.. a stranger, having all the
appearances of a stock dealer, rode into our town and called at the
J.T.
Waldo & Co. Livery, Feed and Sale Stables, and asked to hire a rig
to go to George W. Hardman's, on Barnes' run, and wanted to leave the
horse
that he was riding at the stable. Mr. Waldo went to some trouble
to fit him out with a rig which he took and started on his journey,
saying
that he would probably not be back until the next day. The next
day
came around and Mr. Waldo was surprised to find that his was only the
third
horse hired from Creston to this town, a distance of sixteen miles,
and
in each case he made a different statement as to where he was going
and
what his business was. After keeping the telephone wire hot for
an
hour or two, making inquiry about the man who gave his name as Wright,
Waldo decided to follow him up and try to get his horse and
buggy.
Salathiel Stump and A.S. Poling, two others who had been flim-flamed
out
of a horse and board bill, each sent or came up to town and paid for
feeding
heir horses and took them back with an expression of gladness that
there
was such a way of doing. At this writing, Waldo is in hot
pursuit,
and, if he should find his man, some thing may drop.
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