Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1911 — CANNIBAL CROW IS KILLED [ARTICLE]

CANNIBAL CROW IS KILLED

New Jersey Man Who Lost 300 Eggs Traps Bird and Hangs Body on Tree as Warning. New York. —A crow which had been robbing the hennery of John J. Maynard at West Caldwell, N. J., for three or four weeks was caught in the act the other day. Maynard estimated that the bird hgd taken the inner works from fully 300 eggs. Beginning early this month, Maynard every day found eggs broken —not only those freshly laid, but those under setting hens. Only the shells were left. “Rats.” said Maynard, not slangily, seriously. The other day he went to the hen house after breakfast A par tient watch of five hours was rewarded. A crow flew in through a gable hole and made for pigeons. The crow flew to a nest and destroyed a new egg. Maynard leaped out and beat down the ravenous marauder with a broom. Wringing its neck he hung the crow on a tree close to the hennery as a warning.