Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1909 — TWO CHICKEN THIEVES GET THEIR JUST REWARD. [ARTICLE]

TWO CHICKEN THIEVES GET THEIR JUST REWARD.

Elmer Archer and Wiliam Streight, the two young men from Medaryville who were recently convicted of steening chicjcens, and sentenced to a term of from two to ten years at Jeffersonville, taken to that place last Tuesday by Sheriff Sanders and Recorder Joseph Stipp. Charles Overman, age 16, also from Medaryville, who was convicted Monday of stealing fourteen chickens from Ed. Fritz of that place, was ajso taken with Archer and to Jeffersonville to serve a like sentence. Judge Vurpillat was considering the advisability of suspending the sentence of Archer and Streight, but the people of Medaryville were very unfavorable to this action because of the many thefts rn the community which had been laid to the young men. We are informed that matters there had reached such a point that had the pair been given their liberty, the residents of Medaryville would have discontinued the practice of setting hens and retired from the business of poultry-raising.—Winamac Journal.