Iowa
Old Press
Waterloo Daily Courier
Waterloo, Black Hawk co., Iowa
August 2, 1892
Front Page
For several years a gang of young bloods have committed various
depredations at State Center and vicinity. Farmers and town
people had implements, tools and sundry other articles stolen and
destroyed, and the miscreants always escaped detection or arrest.
A farmer named Crawford, one of the principal sufferers, has just
had the premises occupied by two men named Joe and Frank Baie
searched by officers, with the result that nearly all the
property stolen for several years was found. The Baie boys were
arrested and threaten to turn State's evidence against six
others, sons of prominent and well-to-do farmers, and interesting
developments are expected.
[transcribed by 'Lyle'; May 2008]