Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1914 — Grand Jury Indicts Six Men For Running Down Deer. [ARTICLE]

Grand Jury Indicts Six Men For Running Down Deer.

Kokomo,, Ind., Dee. 3d—Deer hunting, supposed to have been a sport of the past in Howard county, whs revived Oct. 1, 1914, and as a result several men living in Tipton county Mehr the Tipton-How-ard line, are under indictment of the Howard county grand jury. According to the indictment the men ran a deer with the aid of hounds. The deer wsa one .thatescaped from the City park here during the flood of March, 1913. Since that time it had been the companion of a calf on a farm near the Tipton-Howard effeaty. line. When the animal escaped it was tame and ate out of the hands of the park attendants, but return to its natural life made ft wild and no one could approach -within a quarter of t mile of it The- indictment alleges that the men ceased the deer until it died of exhaustion. Two other deer escaped from the park last year, one dying four days later of pneumonia and the other being captured. The park board knew where the third deer was, but had never been "able to capture it.