Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1910 — Parrot Shot as a Hen Thief. [ARTICLE]

Parrot Shot as a Hen Thief.

Winsted, Conm=A parrot owned by Otto C. Schneider of Sandisfleld escaped the other evening and flew to the henhouse of N. H. Snow, one of Schneider’s neighbors. It talked to the hens, which became alarmed at its presence. Snow heard Its voice, and thinking chicken thieves were robbing roosts, he brought his gtnrdntfl play, killing Polly. Schneider gave the bird a decent burial.