Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-12-07 | Page 1 | Gobbler Sounds Alarm as Thieves Raid Turkeys

Gobbler Sounds Alarm As Thieves Raid Turkeys l Guard Beaten in Battling Intruders, but Routs Pair Sans Yule Feast The protests of a big gobbler earned Kenneth Spencer, 658 West Fourth South street, thst there was trouble afoot, early Monday at the turkey camp at Forty-seventh South and Twenty-second Twenty-second West streets, where he is majordonfo. Kenneth ran toward the noise, swinging a hefty club as he went. . He saw two men fleeing toward a coupe parked on Twenty-second West street. One of them had a gobbler tucked under his arm Like a good general. Kenneth had a plan. He remembered the gun he kept for such occasions . and resolved to maneuver in? men into a position where he could grab the fun and keep them pris- i oners. 1 i "Come back here!" he com- ' manded. The men obeyed, turned around and walked toward the camp. But they weren't thinking of surrender. surren-der. They ganged Kenneth as he crept toward his gun. took his club away from him and beat him over the head with it. -Then they fled, leaving Kenneth Ken-neth to call Deputy Sheriffs Kenneth Ken-neth V. Dunn and Amos 'Hansen for assistance. Four stitches were taken in Kenneth's bleeding scalp by hospital hos-pital attendants. It was the price he paid for j protecting the turkeys s price not psid in vsin. because the : would-be thieves forgot the gob- I bier when thejr departed. 1 A '