Show S OLD WESTERN STYLE Farmers Pack Guns to C Curb urb Rustlers MADISON WIS Defying modern modern modern mod mod- ern methods of criminal detection Wood county farmers have banded banded banded band band- ed together in the time old vigilante vigilante lante system to curb a recent outbreak outbreak outbreak out out- break of cattle rustling here An SOS over a rural party telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone line prompted the first concerted concerted concerted con con- manhunt when 50 farmers packing guns in old vigilante style set out on a quest for rustlers They beat a wooded sector from midnight midnight midnight mid mid- night until dawn but the rustlers had bad disappeared Bernard Kroening who lives In nearby Rock saw a car slip up up to a woods on his farm two occupants pants emerging and entering the woods He fired three shots chasing chasing chasing chas chas- ing the men deeper into the woods Meanwhile his wife got busy on the party line to round up the gang of 50 farmers Before their arrival however the mysterious car raced o off I down the road Kroening gave chase in his car but lost th the e quarry Kroening Kroening Kroening Kroen Kroen- ing told the vigilantes he believed the two strangers still were in the woods and that tha t the thc car had been driven by ca a third party who had remained in it Although hampered by fog the farmers beat through bushes and thickets for hours without finding the rustlers Two Marshfield l traffic traffic fic lie officers and several deputies helped them An electric wire which charged a fence on the Kroening farm had been turned o off I by the thieves and the farmers theorized that the themen themen themen men had made careful preparations preparations preparations for herding the animals through the fence when a truck arrived later In a previous rustling incident mysterious strangers fired on a farmer who came upon them unexpectedly unexpectedly unexpectedly un un- un- un expectedly on his farm near Wisconsin Wisconsin Wis Wis- Rapids |