Show lamb snatcher leaves J woolly trail for the law OHIO while evidently mentally woolgathering wool gathering a lamb iamb thief do very well at the real thing he left too many live clues behind him for the benefit of deputy sheriffs on his trail the sheriffs turned sleuths when simon of ville reported the theft of 16 lambs the deputies decided to trail the thief in a systematic way first they visited the pasture and found a trailer gate lying in the road their second clue was a license plate in the road they proceeded down the road and found one of the victims of the lamb napper which had escaped from the thief bleating forlornly the deputies continued driving down the road stopping at farms and collecting the loot the thief had lost by this time the deputies were finding its pretty stuffy crowded in a sedan with 12 lambs but they persevered and reached the end of their trail at the bowling green ohio home of calvin heinman stock buyer and owner of the lost license plate and trailer gate the sheriff deputies obtained a confession from heinman and the four remaining stolen lambs which were in his barn bam the lamb thief retraced his woolgathering route but to the county jail this time instead of to the pasture |