Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1910 — THIS IS A NEW STUNT. [ARTICLE]

THIS IS A NEW STUNT.

Pleasant Ridge Farmer Has Hogs Stolen Friday Night. Lon Colton, who resides on the former Joseph Parkison farm at Pleasant Ridge, now owned |by Henry Amsler, was in town I Saturday and stated to The Democrat that he had three good hogs stolen from his hog lot the night previous. The porkers weighed from 150 to 200 pounds each, and no clue to the thrives : had been found at that time. Mr. Colton said that the hogs had evidently been driven out of j the hog house into the yard, ; where they were knocked in the i head and lifted over the fence and loaded into a wagon, the tracks indicating that it was a spring wagon that had been used to haul them away. Footprints in the snow showed that a medium sized shoe of a fashionable cut was worn by at least one of the thieves, if there was more than one, which it is supposed there was. Hog stealing is certainly a new stunt in the thieving line in Jasper county, and while the high price of turkey might in a measure excuse. 1 a man with a big family from taking a small pig sot his Christmas dinner, there are no extenuating circum- ; stances for the man who would steal three big hogs, and he 'ought to go to prison for life. Mr. Coltpn is a tenant on the | Amsler farm and the lo.is is confsiderable to him.