Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1911 — TRAINED BEES ROUT ROBBERS [ARTICLE]

TRAINED BEES ROUT ROBBERS

Come to Assistance of Minnesota Man When He Is Attacked and .. . Beaten by Thieves. Mamel, Minn.—According to Robert Schultz, the farmer attacked and beaten by two robbers the other day, a swarm of bees came to his assistance and routed his assailants. pu... r J 1 Schultz had several hives ’of wHI trained bees. In describing the at'tack' he said: ‘‘l began to make a noise that I always use to call my bees, and they began to swarm into the barn. Ons lighted on the back of one robber and he ran out the doOr yelling,, ‘stung!* Other bees followed him, and some attacked the other robber.' He had me on my back and was beating foe yhen the bees got busy and, he ran out the door and took to the. woods.”