Reap v. Farrell

The Scranton Tribune - May 20, 1899

REAP WAS UNGRATEFUL.
Given a "Lift" and Then Made Off
with the Horse.

The police were looking high and low last night for Patrick Reap of Minooka, who is wanted to answer for downright cussed meanness. The courts may dub it horse stealing. It was that, but that wasn't the worst of it. It wasn't so much what he stole as the nasty way he stole it.

Reap was trudging towards his home in Minooka when overtaken by Patrick Farrell, of 134 Apple street, Dunmore, who was driving towards the South Side. Reap asked him for a "lift" and Farrell readily accorded it to him. Well down toward the end of Pittston avenue, Farrell made a stop, but bade Reap keep his seat and he would drive him on some distance further towards his destination.

Farrell went inside in a store and remained a few minutes when he came out his horse and carriage and Reap were missing. This was at 5 o'clock. At midnight he was still looking for his missing turnout.

A report reached police headquarters late in the night that Reap had been seen driving through Minooka in the early evening with two girls. At 3 o'clock this morning word was received that Reap had been captured at Avoca by Chief of Police Conboy.  The two girls were not with him at that time.

Contributed by Maria Edwards