Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1917 — BAGS HIS SEVENTY-FIRST WOLF [ARTICLE]

BAGS HIS SEVENTY-FIRST WOLF

Squire Charles Bussell was in from Hanging Grove townshfp Monday exhibiting a large gray wolf Which he killed Saturday evening. For some time past two wolves have been frequenting the vicinity adajcent to Mr. Bussell’s home and he was on the lookout for them'. Saturday he saw the male sitting in the meadow and went after him. 'As is usual when Squire Bussell goes after a wolf he gets him. He was just 165 paces from the animal ‘When he fired, and the first shot did the work. It was a large wolf, considerably larger than the average. It was fortyeight years ago when Mr. Bussell killed his first wolf and since then he has killed seventy, the’iast one being the seventy-first, and all but two were killed in this county.