Sheriffs Gather To Look Up Horse-Thief Evidence

PORTER, DICKERSON, JOHNSON

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 4/22/2010 at 16:15:46

The Grinnell Herald (Grinnell, Iowa) OCt. 14, 1913

SHERIFFS GATHER TO LOOK UP HORSE-THIEF EVIDENCE

The sheriffs of Muscatine, Mahaska, Iowa and Marshall counties were in Grinnell Sunday looking up evidence against John Porter, suspected of being an accomplice of Thomas Dickerson now serving a five-year sentence in the state penitentiary for horse thieving. Porter was seen coming out of the barn rented by Dickerson and is thought to be the man who drove the teams that were stolen by the thieves. Porter went from Grinnell to Marshalltown changing his name to E.C. Johnson. He later went to Hampton and was arrested there and taken to Oskaloosa where he is now in jail.