Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1916 — Organized Bunch of Chicken Thieves is Operating. [ARTICLE]

Organized Bunch of Chicken Thieves is Operating.

Francesville Tribune. Renseslaer papers mention occasionally losses to poultry raisers because of numerous thefts. There seems to be a well organized bunch of chicken thieves working in Jasper and Pulaski counties, and somewhere along the route there is a poultry dealer or two helping dispose of the hauls, many of which have been made around Francesville lately. The thieves have some place to dispose of the poultry where it is shipped out in a way that eliminates suspicion. Poultry raisers can break up this system of thievery by getting a detective to spend a couple of weeks in the two counties.