Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1914 — GIRL IS CLEVER DETECTIVE [ARTICLE]

GIRL IS CLEVER DETECTIVE

Young Woman Recognizes Her Stolen Henh Feathers and Has Man fi Arrested. Bowie, Md. —Wade ColSson, white, 1b in jail at Upper Marlboro, his incarceration being the result of clever detective work by Miss Marjorie Zug of this place. Mias Zug discovered, the other day, that the door of her hen- , house had been opened by some one who had taken off the staples of the lock. .Several Plymouth Rock chickens were missing. Miss Zug observed foot-prints leading away from the henhouse. She followed these; and after going a mile and a half the tracks led her to the bouse occupied by Coleson, and Miss' Zug entered. She discovered no one was at home, and going to the second story found the evidence that resulted in Coleson’s Imprisonment. The room was littered with chicken feathers. In Miss Zug’s hennery was an old hen which had been her pet nine years. Miss Zug knew practically every feather on 'this chicken, and was satisfied that they came from her pet. Miss Zug swore out a warrant for Coleson’s arrest