Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1915 — THIEF TOOK ALARM [ARTICLE]

THIEF TOOK ALARM

And Left Sack of Corn and Live Chickens Near Padgitt Bridge. Some fellow who had developed an abnormal taste for yellow legged chickens, is minus the fruits of his efforts to secure both chickens and chicken feed last Tuesday night. Tom Padgitt, who had a trot-line set in the river near the Padgitt bridge, drove down to the bridge in his auto on returning from town about 11 o'clock Tuesday night to examine the line. He heard some one hurriedly leaving the locality, but paid little attention to the matter. Wednesday morning, in going down to look at the trot-line again, he saw a sugar sack filed with something, ifing near and on investigating found it contained about a bushel of white corn and S or 10 Rhode Island lied chickens. Unthinkingly he turned the chickens loose and it is not known whose chickens they were. Cooney Kellner thinks the corn was taken from his crib. If the owner of the sack will make himself known he can have same. The thief no doubt thought when the auto stopped at the bridge, that the occupants were after him, and threw down the sack and “took leg hail.”