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    Horse theft is the crime of stealing horses. A person engaged in stealing horses is known as a horse thief. Historically, punishments were often severe...
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    with the James–Younger Gang and other outlaws. She was convicted of horse theft in 1883. She was fatally shot in 1889 in a case that is still officially...
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    behaviour. When he returned to Greta, his brother Jim was in prison for horse theft and his mother soon married an American, George King. To settle the score...
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  • Grand Theft Horse is a 2018 graphic novel written by Greg Neri and illustrated by Corban Wilkin. The book is published by Lee & Low and is a biography...
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    Dick Turpin (category People executed for theft)
    whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher early in his...
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    insurance fraud, forgery, swindling, three or four bigamous marriages, horse theft, and murder. His most notorious crimes took place in Chicago around the...
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    century fiction. He was first convicted as a youth for the crime of horse theft. He was branded with an "HT", flogged, and sentenced to six years in...
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    Fingered Jack, was reputed to have been responsible for most of the horse theft, robberies, and murders committed in the Mother Lode area of the Sierra...
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  • 1901. He was accused of murdering two sheriffs and finally convicted of horse theft. Celebrated by fellow Mexican-Americans for his ability to evade the...
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  • Shergar (category European Thoroughbred Horse of the Year)
    stated they stole the horse. The IRA has never admitted any role in the theft. The Aga Khan, Shergar's owner, sent the horse for training in Britain...
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