Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1913 — Large Eagle Shot by Reynolds Crow Hunters. [ARTICLE]

Large Eagle Shot by Reynolds Crow Hunters.

Reynolds Journal. Clemens Heimlich is the proud possessor of a large eagle which he shot Thursday evening. It is a magnificent specimen, measuring seven feet from tip to tip and weighing almost ten pounds; Clemens, together with John Werner and Rinehart Krintz, went out to shoot crows in the evening and it seems that the eagle was after the same game. The bird swooped doWn toward the younthful hunters and as he veered away Clemens gave him the benefit of a charge of shot. It was already so dark that he did not know what he had shot and he sent the Krintz boy to pick up the "crow.” What he found was far from a crow and he decided not to pick it up. It was an eagle, with one wing broken but nevertheless very much alive and ready to meet all comers. The three, nimrods were too much for him, however, and the eagle will be a fit subject for'.the taxidermist’s art. It was shot on the Holsemer farm.