Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1911 — MAY HAVE CAPTURED BATCH OF CHICKEN THIEVES. [ARTICLE]

MAY HAVE CAPTURED BATCH OF CHICKEN THIEVES.

Monon Marshal Brought Two Men to v Rensselaer Who are Alleged to Be Guilty of Practice. . r < William Day and joje, Hubbard are in in Rensselaer charged with stealing chickens. They were brought here Tuesday afternoon by tljie marshal of the town of Monon, who arrested them on information furnished by a reliable party at Lee, near which place Day and Hubbard and a man by the name of Johnson live. A warrant for Johnson was also issued but he could not be located and the marshal thought he was lucky to have procured two of the men. Chicken stealing has been going tfn at a lively- rate in the neighborhood of Lee and McCoysbufg and suspicion is said to have attached to these men. Recently a citizen of Lee was coming past the farm residence of J. D. Miller, in Hanging Grove township at a late hour in the night, and he saw a onehorse wagon pulled up alongside the fence and a man standing near by. IJe recognized the rig, it is said, and also the man who was standing by it. He also saw two other men coming through the hog lot and each had a bunch of chickens. He recognized the other men and swore out the warrants for the arrests. The two men were placed under arrest and brought to Rensselaer and turned over to Marshal Mustard, who put them in the care of Sheriff Hoover^ at the county jail. They will have a hearing before Squire Irwin either this evening or in the morn--ing as soon as the prosecutor can get away from other things that are occupying his attention at the court house.

Wednesday morning the wives of the two men who are in jail, and also the wife of the man who wag not captured, came to the jail and before the sheriff knew what was up they were in . conversation with the men. He fired them out but later when they made an appeal to be allowed to see them for only a little while, the sheriff said he would let them, provided they would do their talking before him. They promised to do this, but when he let them into the jail they undertook to whißper to the men and he fired them again. Another undesirable visitor at the jail was James Haines, the man at whom the game warden took a shot last year, and who skipped out for a time, bpt came back as soon as he learned} that the warrants for bis arrest'were disposed of. He wanted to see the men but was not permitted to do so. Haynes has a bad reputation and has long been feared |>y the people of that section. Some that he is the leader of a gang that has engaged in chicken stealing. People In the east end of the eounty are said to be confident that the right men have been captured and if this proves to be the case a penitentiary sentence should be meted out. Chaa. E. Nowels, afho went to Longmont, Colo., several years Ago, writes back to renew his subscription to The Republlcan'and says: “I notice that my subscription to The Republican has expired, so send P. O. order to have it renewed. We are so well pleased with Colorado that we would almost forget the old home altogether if we did not get The Republican twice a week to remind us of old time neighbors and friends. We are having about our first real winter for this season and have had about 6 inches of snow since yesterday, but it Is not cold. So far we have had about the most delightful winter I ever experienced. Except for twfr or three days when the thermometer registered about zero or a little below, the weather has been almost like spring, ang there was sunshine almost every day.” .