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TRAP CHICKENTip Prom Tusearora, N. Y., Results in Capture Near Nelson of Gang Active in s This County—Secure Can- «fession. * ' „ *—*——p“StonfifF County 'Detective-^ Ej A-Young, and a greSt Many farmers in this section of the state, aa-well as in southern New York State realized an ambition when three men who confessed to more than 30 chicken thefts inarrested near NeiSOOeJhPE.eiOinf ntvint fl n clock Sunday evening by.blt;Mr Young, Constable Dorrance, ofElkJatrcl; and Privates Brewa-Mdrpfcgyffiand Neville, of the' State Police station at Oaleton, Arthur Broughton, 19 M~11ps Bcnugiit.tm 25, uf CLuilkam town1ship; and Robert Williamson, 19, cl New Jersey were the men arrested A woman, believed to be the common law wife of Miles Broughton and a three •year oifi girl, taken with the men, werew.elt*diInot heldA tip from Tusearora, N Y, by Sheriff JLee Rogers, through deputy-.Sheriff Hugh Cunningham of Corning.Ynotified E A Yoiing, Constable Dorrance, at Elkland. Dfiptity-Pred1 Cooper, at Knoxville, Deputy ByronnGUuwcfo,IT*lieRoy Wilcox, at Wellsboro, the-State Police yBt Gale ton, and Sheriff Frank; Chamberlain here, at about_ eight o- -clock that the‘men were on their way In this'direction arid an hour later, I bothey were stopped at Nelson _Former Detective Young s interest ixTh^ the case began 'during his acfittty“as ions of tneJ^roughtoniLjiinilWilliamsan'aghave dated since that time He has he. traced them_to various places Policejhestate rh.ot.^.lFthree rnm_Mse ..cxitnm.- 1 ai records Their method of chicken mistealing was scientific to say the least—0UJ -— for-'the- officers stated that the men Filt; bored a hoie in the hen-hfihstf'tu be,ar p. robbgdrfljlKTSie plaeiT with npistfo gas, ^ sttmnin'g_'t'he fouls lym-rheu eiiLcxcd'1 PflLi r ai,|_uuumgBSM«^|aiiuBuUiHI|bc»0 , nlcarrying mem oat silentlyUpon learning that the BroughtonsfieWiUiainson were gn their wa^_£ -_ „A_Young laRrTn3‘pT5EsT6'“trap them ^ b} placing nis-crroad at the £lKlajid-.La*rence\ille road ■-'lutfction When the sedan containing -Uig1 'confessed chicken thie\ es_stopp£d^ , Young and stepped ouWromj ststheir ambush and confronted tnem Ue MiJSS Broughton added one count tothe charges aeainst him whenJifi pull- I “ ed a gun on the officers at this time r~The tno ttere taken to Galeton w±Lnrc_JUae-u*Fwade a complete confession and ^ere later brought to WelLs-bo-o wnepe-thv hearisg agdiplead guilt* beforq ^Justice of the l_Peace Q, W. D^vis JLnLestigations hav.been begun to Found up others believed to ha\e been implicated In the——thefts ~ -__LWot chickens but a pig, cloth-* :uig_ radio set blanket and “one automobile are among the thefts confessed to In Tioga County tjieir depreda-tiom-mtduded chickens from, th£t)rms-by farm nears’KnO‘^\ille chickens from t.hf* Prank Carl farm near Elkland a pig from the farm of Charles *Gnd]e jiear Westfield, chickens from the GeoKnapp farm at Elkland, foWK'TronrtW • 7)^vrlfcr~Kmg-^md-^he^CI^rgifarms m WesTfield ^-ffoni the farm of Mrs Mary ' Ac^ie^ near Westfield a pftnt—uaf1 itw?-- Borden Milk Company at EUtMSdTtf-which waaTEeff msome of their escapades j _______Numerous other—thefts fcere perpetrated thay-state.^m. T.ogar McKeaq j Warren and Potter counties PennSsl-l/van a and m Steuben Cattaiaugus. Ai- t legany and Broome Counties N \ j Their stolen articles ttere coId__ the prisoners confess in Conui^ Olean Jamestown Binghamton MontjceOo 1JYork-Slate and m Bradford, Fort' Alleganv and wiysses _m_Fennsy lvama - _ — Iv. Of the crimes alleged to have been-committed by_ the tno about 20, are t believed to have taken place in Tioga county, Fa , and about 12 in Nes Yon:1 State
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Wellsboro Gazette
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Feb 13, 1930
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