Fowls Stolen by Hundreds Around Kouts After They Are Doped, So They Will Not Squawk When Taken
The area has been infested with an organized gang of chicken thieves the past few nights. They have been getting away with their plunder..
Sheriff Pennington and deputies from Valparaiso, are working on the case, and hope to catch the miscreants…
Alva White had about 125 chickens stolen, and a number of others have been robbed in the same way.
It is said that the thieves drop coops in bushes and use some kind of drug to cause the chickens to keel over and drop off their roosts…
They can then be picked up, put in the coops, and carried off, without the usual squawk….
After being out in the open air, the foul is revived, and as good as though nothing had happened…
More than a thousand chickens have been stolen from his neighborhood in the last six months, and…
farmers have been aroused over the continued depredations….
Mr. and Mrs. Morris drove to Valparaiso early Friday and identified a crippled chicken as one taken from their farm.(1923, Indiana)
