Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1916 — Drew Gun to Defend a Sack of Chickens. [ARTICLE]

Drew Gun to Defend a Sack of Chickens.

Charles Mose and Mike Biovli, two Austrians living on the Halstead farm east of Mt. Ayr, were arraigned in Justice Mock's court Monday charged with drawing a gun on Randolph Wright, Alex Waltbach and one of the Halstead boys Sunday morning. The men were fined $5, which, together with the costs, amounted to s3l each, and being unable to liquidate are now confined in the jail at Rensselaer. Waltbach testified at the trial that he had a lot of chickens stolen a few days before, and on Sunday morning had invited Wright to accompany him on a little expedition in search of _ the same. _ They had crossed the field in the direction of the place where the Austrians lived, and as they approached the road the

Austrians drew a gun and demanded them to hold up their hands. The Austrians testified that one of them had been in Rensselaer Saturday night and the other at Mt. Ayr, that Sunday morning while walking down the road they “found” a sack containing 1 chickens, that one or two of them had gotten loose and that they were trying to catch them when Wright and -Wy/tbaeh made their appearance across the field. They could not explain why they drew a gun on the two men in defense of some chickens which they claimed they had found, so Judge Mock put two and two together and imposed the tine as above noted.— Kentland Enterprise,