Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1913 — Thieves at Indianapolis Robbed Imes’ Hen Roost. [ARTICLE]

Thieves at Indianapolis Robbed Imes’ Hen Roost.

The Indianapolis Northwestern. Mrs. Imes, the Udell street milliner, lives on 21st street, near the school house west of the canal, and there is where dhicken thieves thrive. chickens of all sizes and breeds have surreptitiously disappeared from coops in that neighborhood in the last few weeks and the unporfltable business goes merrily on. Late one night recently, Mr. and Mrs. Imesjwere disturbed by a noise that came- from the hen coop. They arose and peered out into the darkness, but were able to see that the coop door was closed all right. Hence 'they, concluded that a small dog had entered at the hen portal and was abusing some of the mother hens that were bunking with their broods near the ground. Repeated disturbances out there, however, made the Imeses feel it their duty to investigate. They started out unshod and noiselessly, but she sent him back after his revolver. He had no more than overtaken the procession again, when she sent him back after the key and before he eaught up again the investigation had been completed. She had gone on to the coop and as she approached the door it burst open and a man that looked to her to be as big as the SQldters’ and sailors’ monument, lunged out and almost bumped noses with her. She tried to shout “shoot” to her husband, but her mouth refused to work under those alarming circumstances and she only said “sh-h-h-h,” but this so scared the chickens that two of them fluttered from the running thief’s hands. About this time Mr. Imes arrived and saw the scoundrel running and blazed away at him with the revolver, but he does not think he hit the same field that the thief was in. The two hens that fluttered loose are what they have out of twentvone fine ones.