Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1916 — CHICKEN THIEVES ARE ACTIVE [ARTICLE]

CHICKEN THIEVES ARE ACTIVE

M. P. Warner Had Two Hundred Taken Sat unlay Night. Chicken thieves visited the home of M. P. Warner on Melvin street Saturday night and stole about 200 spring chickens, but about half of them were recovered later. Mr. Warner had the chickens penned up preparing them for market, and besides a number of hens only twentyfour spring chickens w-ere left. When Mr. Warner discovered the theft Sunday morning he and his son James armed themselves with shotguns and started to follow the trail of the thieves, which led across his corn field east of the house and toward the railroad. About 100 of the chickens were found in the corn field, the thieves having evidently taken more than they could carryvery far. They continued to follow the trail to a point near the old match factory, and it ie thought the thieves escaped on a handcar.