Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1917 — A NEW USE FOR CHLOROFORM [ARTICLE]

A NEW USE FOR CHLOROFORM

Chicken Thief Uses Drug to Stupefy His Prey. A new use for chloroform has just come to light. Last Thursday night, or perhaps early Friday morning, some one • visited Ed. Kanno’s chicken house and after using the chloroform to stupefy the fowls departed with four them. It is evident that the thief had not used this method frequently for the dose was a little too heavy and ten of the chickens succumbed to the effects, leaving but eight of a flock of tWenty-two. It is too bad .that the thief did not get a whiff of the'-’ch loro form, sufficient to have ■kept him on the premises until morning.. z