Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1919 — 5,000 Fish Successfully Elude Fort Worth Police [ARTICLE]

5,000 Fish Successfully Elude Fort Worth Police

Fort 'Worth, Tex. —The season’s first fish story broke here, but as yet Fire Chief Bideker is unable to explain how the elusive Annies got away. Five thousand young bass were shipped here in a ten-gallon tank from the San Marcos hatcheries to be used in restocking the waters of Lake Worth. All arrangements had been made for taking the bass to the lake, but when the chief and several ofhis men went to the Texas & Pacific station it was found the fish had been previously receipted for and taken away. Police and city detectives are trying to solve the mystery.