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The following is published on the request of a respectable citizen of Clark
county: We are getting along very well in Pike and Clark counties, (in
apprehending horse-thiefs), on the 30th ult., two men were apprehended, in
Pike county, for horse-stealing - one committed to jail, and the other
reserved as a witness. On the 2d inst., another was taken up, who turned
State's evidence, and gave information against some others of the gang;
and, on the 4th, __________________ was apprehended and this day committed
to jail, for the same offence. And, this night, I understand they have
another on trial on a similar charge.
Observer of Clark county.
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Arkansas State Gazette, September 19, 1837, Volume XVIII, No. 40, Whole
No. 1093, page 2, column 2.
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ANOTHER WARNING TO HORSE-THIEVES
At the late term of the Circuit court, of Pike county, Judge HANDY
presiding. - TYRE O'NEIL was convicted of stealing horses from the Chickasaw
Indians, when lately passing through that county to their new homes on our
western frontier, and sentenced to be executed on the 20th October, inst.
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Arkansas State Gazette, October 3, 1837, Volume XVIII, No. 42, Whole No.
1095, page 2, column 1.
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ANOTHER WARNING TO HORSE-THIEVES!
TYRA O'NEAL was executed, in the county of Pike, on the 20th of last month,
for horse stealing, and has made a confession, which will be published
hereafter, in which John H. Mosley and others are implicated.
JOHN H. MOSLEY, above named, was indicted in the circuit court of Clark
county, for counselling and advising the said Tyra O'Neal to steal the horse
for which he was executed; and, after a long and tedious trial, was found
guilty, and is sentenced to be executed on the 10th day of December next.
There is much excitement on the subject in the counties of Clark and Pike,
and, from information and disclosures on the trial of Mosley, it is
ascertained that he is the chief of the horse-thieves.
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Arkansas State Gazette, November 14, 1837, Volume XVIII, No. 48, Whole No.
1108, page 2, column 4.
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There has been but one legal execution in the county, and this was the
hanging of Tyre O'Neal for horse stealing, ... Hon. James H. Kirkham ... of
Pike County, ... performed the first and only civil execution in that
county.
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas, Clark County,
page 146; Pike County, page 309.
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David Kelley 1996