Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1915 — Confessed Chicken Thief in Jail. [ARTICLE]

Confessed Chicken Thief in Jail.

Harvey Budreau, 18-year-old son of Alfred Budreau of Milroy tp., who has been sleeping at the Leek hitch barn and boarding at one of the restaurants here, was arrested yesterday morning, charged with the theft of nine" chickens ajul two hitch straps, stolen from the home of James Amsler, of southeast of town, recently. The hitch straps were found in his possession, and when arraigned before Squire Spitler the boy plead guilty to the charge and also confessed to having stolen seven chickens from the home of Oscar Hauter, also of southeast of town, on the nigfTT of June 17. He had sold the chickens on the 18th at the Rishling & Murray poultry house. He was bound over to the circuit court under SSOO bonds and placed in jail, not having given bond at this writing. It seems that he had started out Thursday night on another expedition with his horse and buggy and had intended to make a raid on Marion Adams’ chicken house. Mr. Adams also resides in the neighborhood of his previous operations. He was frightened away but left his horse and buggy hitched near there, where they were found by the officers and brought to town. The nine chickens and sack of corn found by Tom Padgitt a couple of weeks ago, near the Padgitt bridge, was Budreau’s loot from Amsler’s place. It wull probably go pretty hard with the young man.