Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1904 — Charged With Stealing Lard. [ARTICLE]

Charged With Stealing Lard.

The Kentland Enterprise has quite an extended account of the direful deeds of the two men, D. S. Payne and Ralph Bonebrake, who were placed in our jail a few days ago, to await trial at the October term of the Newton circuit court. It seems that George Long, living south of Kentland, discovered on June 23rd that his smokehouse had been rifled and three big cans of lard were missing. He put himself on the trail of hie missing pig fat, and found where Payne and Bonebrake had sold a can each to groceries in Wadena, Earl Park and Fowler. He caused the two men, to be arrested and their incarceration in the jail here soon followed. Payne has a wife and two children. He lived on a farm in Benton county. Bonebrake is a single man and a recent comer in the vicinity of Kentland.