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Then he went back to holding his jaws in two spread palms, and brooding over the trouble he was in. Johnny did a great deal of thinking along the line suggested by old Sudden. At first he thought merely how groundless was any suspicion that the airplane was in any way connected with the horse-stealing, except that it might justly be accused of contributing to his negligence.
"Melville, in addition to being president of one of the largest banks in the world, is a director in no less than seventy-three great industrial enterprises, including railways, telegraph companies, savings-banks and life-insurance companies. Bill Van Nest has done time in the Nevada State Penitentiary for horse-stealing." That was all. And it was enough quite enough.
Hitherto, at the least sign of danger, he changed into a perfect arsenal; he invariably slept "in his weapons"; but now, even in the darkness, the other noted that he was unarmed, and therefore it was no attempt at horse-stealing or of assault upon themselves he feared. "Who is it? What is it?" he asked, stumbling over the tangle of string-like roots that netted the ground.
Instead of signature you find, a little later, writ in careful commercial hand, this entry: ``Mr did not attend at his office to-day, having been hanged at eight o'clock in the morning for horse-stealing. Through the faded ink of this record do you not seem to catch, across the gulf of years, some waft of the jolly humanity which breathed in this prince among clerks?
He had but four men remaining with him, and forty-six horses to take care of; with these he had to make his way over mountain and plain, through a marauding, horse-stealing region, full of peril for a numerous cavalcade so slightly manned. He addressed himself to his difficult journey, however, with his usual alacrity of spirit.
Executions for "treason," murder, and horse-stealing were very common. For an instance where the three crimes were treated alike as deserving the death penalty the perpetrators being hung, see Calendar of Virginia State Papers, Vol. III., p. 361. "American Archives," 4th Series, Vol. VI., p. 541. But parties of young braves went on the war-path from time to time. Do., Vol III., p. 790. Do., Vol.
In a word, he was one day arraigned before a county-court in Kentucky, on a charge of horse-stealing, and matters went hard against him, his many offences in that line having steeled the hearts of all against him, and the proofs of guilt, in this particular instance, being both strong and manifold.
He was a gentleman farmer living near, recently appointed deputy sheriff on account of a recent outbreak of horse-stealing in the neighbourhood. "I observe," he remarked, after a hurried glance about him, "that the paper on these walls is not at all like that she describes.
If he really was connected with the Bunker boys, what was more likely than that he had ways of passing the word along to some of them who might be waiting to rob us on our way home? But the crime that I was sure had been committed back along the road the spring before had been horse-stealing.
Certain acts of sabotage tearing down railway trestles and bridges, undermining trains, displacing grade, tampering with rails and switches were not only hampering construction but endangering life. And things were growing worse. In addition there was complaint of horse-stealing at one isolated camp. The point of the letter was contained in the last paragraph.
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