Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1900 — Big Thefts of Cattle. [ARTICLE]

Big Thefts of Cattle.

Big Stealings in Two Indiana » Connties. Detectives are Baffled by Work In White and Jasper Counties. Lafayette, Ind., November 30— Wholesale cattle stealing is reported in White and Jasper counties. The farmers have lost 265 head, and detectives in this part of the State are baffled as to the idenity of the thieves who have been carrying off the live stock, although the operations are bold in execution. Cars were secured by the thieves and placed on sidings along the Monon railroad at convenient points. The cattle were rounded up in cowboy style, in the various localities, and driven to the cars, when they were shipped to the Chicago stock yards. The cattle brought $15,000 and the thieves escaped with the money. The above is copied, verbatim, headlines and all, from Friday eyening’s Indianapolis News. There is not a word of truth in it nor shadow like the truth, but it is a fair sample of a great deal of the stuff which the city papers are always publishing as special news. And it will continue to be no better until the people demand from their newspapers reliable news rather than sensational stuff like the above. The News, ought not to keep a correspondent in its service for a single hour after he has imposed upon it a monumental mess of lies such as those above copied from some Lafayette liar.