Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1913 — CHICAGO HUNTERS ARE UNDER ARREST [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO HUNTERS ARE UNDER ARREST

Three Men Bagged by Deputy Game Warden at Valparaiso for Killing Prairie Chickens. Valparaiso Vidette. . The feather of a fowl on the clothing of. an automobile tourist attracted the attention of Amos Casbon, a deputy game warden of Porter township, Sunday, and a short time later he had three men under arrest for violating the game laws. The men had killed two prairie chickens and had them hidden away in their game bag. Carbon turned his prisoners over to the state game wardens on the Kankakee, after they had endeavored in vain to bribe him into giving them their freedom. Schroeder, Busch and Doeller were the names the men gave, and they also furnshed their street numbers in Chicago. They were to answer to a charge of killing prairie chickens out of season at Lowell today. Other charges that could be preferred aganst them are hunting without a permit from the landowner and hunting on Sunday. The hiinters had a bird dog with them to point out their game, and were, taken on the Hankins farm near Hurlburt. When they fouhd they were under the surveilance of a game warden, they readily disclosed their birds and gave their names and addresses. Then they offered the bribe. Ten dollars was shoved by one of the men into Casbon’s pocket. He immediately handed it back and the hunters increased the amount to $25, which had no effect upon their captor.