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Jacob Brenner Interferes with Plans of Poultry ThievesTwo chicken thieves very nearly come to grief in Newton town-; ship Inst night. An entire posse of j officers and farmers searchedfields and woods for them afterJ they left their ear but were un- j able to fill'd them. However, the • chickens Were found and thethieves’ ear' was confiscated, sh! nobody is out anything except the : “thieves,• Mrs. Jacob Brenner who • re-1sides a mile south and a half mile east of Ceresco, notified *the I sheriff's office at 2:30 o’clock this! morning that, Mr. Brenner had; heard chicken thieves in the yard j and that he was in the yard with! them at. the time she was phon- | ing. Sheriff Colby and Deputy' Sheriff Reek went out from Mar- ■ shall and Deputy Sheriff Harther i and Officer Vosburg'wore also ;;oon! on the scene, j/ It developed that prior to the.! officers’ arrival the- two thieves jumped into their car and made a getaway. Mr. Brenner followed them, Near .Cools’ Corners idle men evidently stalled their engine. They jumped from their car and started to run thru the fields toward the river. Mr. Brenner followed them for a short distance, but soon lost track of them.The officers were joined by Deputy Sheriffs Watts, Furner and Beardsley. of Battle Creek as well as by several farmers 1 armed with shotguns. The fields in the im- mediate vicinity were surrounded and thoroly searched. However no trace of the men was fbund and it is that that they must have left the fields and gone toward Ceresco before the. officers arrived, altho only a few minutes-elapsed between the time the telephone call was received and the-arrival of the first officers,About. sixty ehickns were taken from the Brenner farm. They had been placed in bags before Mr; Brenner was awakened ' and had been- put in the car which was a Ford touring car with an Ohio license. Some of the bags of. chickens were thrown out of the car during the ride from the farm „to the place where it ■ was abandoned, The others Were found in the - car. Onfe chickeii had . been smothered to death in- a bag and others may die from the effects ofthe suffocation. ■ ,The car was taken by the officers and was brought here to the Ford garage for storage. Sheriff Colby said that the description of one of the men corresponded with that of a , professional chicken thief who has just completed a sentence for the last scrape in Which he was caughC
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Marshall Evening Chronicle
Marshall, Michigan, US
Tue, May 13, 1930
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