The Insane Fighting Farmer Taken Through Disguise

Harlan, Iowa, 1903

The Fighting Farmer Taken

Sheriff Stewart and Aids Garbed As Farmers, Capture Arthur Sherlock Near Harlan

Harlan, March 14. — Sheriff Stewart, Ed Parker and Stod Wick went out to Polk township and nabbed the fighting insane man, Arthur Sherlock. He did not know Parker and Wick, who dressed as farmers and made him a proposition to purchase his cattle. Watching their chance the young men overpowered the insane man and put irons on him. He struggled so hard that he broke the first ones put on him. A revolver was found on his person. After the man was taken he laughed about the matter, saying that he had suspected the boys, but that his suspicions were a little too late. Sherlock has been at large on his place for some time, heavily armed and anxious to put cold lead into the sheriff and his deputy, whom he knew. He was taken to the state hospital at Clarinda.