People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1896 — Dogs Accused of Theft. [ARTICLE]

Dogs Accused of Theft.

The county jail harbors Wilson Hoffman and wife, charged With being the instigators of a peculiar crime. According to the story of the neighbors, the Hoffmans used to go bn foraging expeditions every morning, accompanied by their two dogs. When the expedition reached a farmyard, the dogs would bound over the fences each seize a chicken and’ bear it back to the wagon. As the Hoffmans could undersell less fortunate dealers and quickly dispose of their goods an investigation disclosed the facts recited. One householder claims to have lost 160 chickens in this wAy. *—Philadelphia Press.