Salisbury, Dec. 18—Having been pestered considerably by chicken thieves of late and having lost 50 chickens during the year, J. Clarence Bernhardt, a rural letter carrier connected with the Salisbury office, gave chase last night to a thief who had just emerged from his hen house. Mr. Bernhardt and his son used a car and when they overtook the visitor and ordered him to halt and he did not they opened fire on him. When Mr. Bernhardt’s gun fired, the fleeing man dropped a bag of chickens but never hesitated. While Mr. Bernhardt thinks he struck him, there is no definite evidence that he did. The chickens in the bag numbered eight.
From page 4 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Dec. 19, 1925
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