Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1912 — Chicken Thieves Beware. [ARTICLE]

Chicken Thieves Beware.

Chicken thieves are again abroad in the land and in the last three or four weeks Mrs. Stephen Kohley of southeast of town has had over a hundred stolen. During the past four years she has lost nearly five hundred by thieves, and Mr. Kohley is now sleeping with one eye open and a shotgun loaded with buckshot in. easy reach, so that the next raid made on their flock is liable to result disastrously for the contemptible whelp or whelps who try anything of this kind. The chicken thief is about as low down in the moral scale as it is possible for a human being to get, and the killing of any person who is caught in the act is not only justifiable, but the man behind the gun should be publicly rewarded for ridding the community of the most worthless and annoying pest that honest people have to contend with.