Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1902 — Evading the Game Laws. [ARTICLE]

Evading the Game Laws.

In France the ancient craft of poaching is carried to a refinement unknown in other countries with game laws, and the harvest of the poacher and pot hunter is always very large. Modern invention is called In to help the followers of the profession. The gun, the snare, the slinking through the undergrowth to keeii out of range of the keepers—all these and similar things have been done away with by those who pretend to be artists in their work. Instead of these they take a net, an automobile and an acetylene lamp. After dark they ride in the “bubble*' along side a game preserve, but do not leave the road. The dazzling rays of the lamp are turned into the woods, and the silly birds and rabbits attracted by them come flying and running out, only to be taken into the waiting net. Then away go the poachers at a rate of forty miles an hour or so until they come to the next place to rob. Technically they are not poachers, and attempts that have been made to convict the few who have been caught have failed because they violated no game law, since they were not trespassing; consequently the House of Deputies will be asked this year to pass a new law which will cover this offense.