Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1904 — A Youthful Wolf Slayer. [ARTICLE]

A Youthful Wolf Slayer.

Squire Charley Bussell is no longer the whole thing in the wolf killing line, out in Hanging Grove township. He has a very youthful rival out there in the person of Russell, the 11 year old son of W. R. Willets. The latter was in town last Saturday with the defunct carcass of a big she wolf his boy killed {the day before. The boy was out with a rifle and spw the wolf digging by a stump, and downed it with a bullet behind the shoulders, at 60 yards distance. This samd wolf is credited with having made a good deal of havoc among the turkeys in that region, and greatly are the neighbors rejoioed at her death, The boy filed a claim in the auditor’s office for the $lO bounty. So far as we have any knowledge Young Willets is the youngest boy that ever killed a $lO wolf in Jasper county.