Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1912 — BEES TRAIL HONEY THIEVES [ARTICLE]

BEES TRAIL HONEY THIEVES

Colorado Apiarist Follows SWarm for Mile and Recovers Stolen Sweets. Sterling, Colo. —When J. M. Cornelius, a honey producer, near here, awoke one morning he found that during the night fifteen bee hives had been looted of fifty pounds of honey. He followed the dispossessed bees to the home of two brothers named Bennett, living a mile away. There he found the bees swarming about the house, while the Bennetts, besieged, had shut the door and windows and were afraid to go out. Cornelius swore out warrants for the arrest of the Bennetts. They admitted the theft.