Jefferson County KS Archives News.....Burglars Caught April 17, 1880
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The Oskaloosa Independent, Jefferson County, Saturday, April 17, 1880 April 17, 1880
Burglars Caught.
On last Saturday evening, about nine o'clock, two strangers forced an entrance
into the residence of Eli EVANS home at Valley Falls, while the Van Amburg show
was giving its entertainment. They threw a rock through a window, doubtless to
ascertain if any one was in the house. They took a quantity of clothing and two
boxes or hand trunks in which Eli kept the papers of the house he is traveling
for. Mr. Evans returned home a short time after the thieves had left and finding
things as they were, armed himself with a breach-loading gun, charged and ready
to use, and started out in quest of the theives. The guards around the show
tent, put him on the track, and he found them near the railroad depot, under the
gangway for conveying stock from the cars to the yard. On accosting them they
started to run, but he halted them, and a wholesome fear of the gun probably
acted as a persuader to stop. All the stolen goods were recovered. It being cold
one of them had donned Mr. Evan's over!
 coat, to keep comfortable.
On Monday the culprits were arraigned before Justice Clark, and pleading guilty
were brought here and lodged in jail. They gave ficitious names.
Two other parties were arrested at the Falls for another burlargy, but were
discharged, there being no proof against them.











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