Show OLD WESTERN STYLE farmers pack guns to curb rustlers MADISON WIS defying modern methods ot of criminal detection wood county tanners farmers have banded together in the old time vigilante system to curb a recent outbreak of cattle rustling here an SOS over a rural party telephone line prompted the first concerted manhunt man hunt when 50 farmers packing guns in old vigilante style set out on a quest tor for rustlers they beat a wooded sector from midnight until dawn but the rustlers had disappeared bernard kroening who lives in nearby rock saw a car slip up to a woods on his farm two occupants emerging and entering the woods he fired three shots chasing the men deeper into the woods meanwhile his wife got busy on the party line to lo round up the gang of 50 farmers before their arrival however the mysterious car raced off down the road kroening gave chase in his car car but lost the quarry kroening told the vigilantes he believed the two strangers still were in the woods and that the car had been driven by a third party who had remained in it |