Will Talk It Over

Daily Republican de Decatur (Illinois), Tuesday, April 13, 1897
s1Clark, J.: "airship and stolen cow, Illinois, 1897", Magonia Exchange, 2007-04-04

Deputy Sheriff Holmes, Deputy Stabler, Officer John Williamson and Marshal Mason, with Special Officer McCune, had a meeting in the court house tower at 3 o'clock this afternoon to look for the airship. They have heard a good deal about the airy mystery, and so have Butcher Sterr and Dairyman Chappell, and the man that led off the McCune cow, but they feel that the whole affair is a fake. They have run up against a good many rum things in their experience, but never before have they heard of electric lighted airships and stolen cow stories in the month of April. They would have had the talk in the tower, but concluded that they would defer the conference until a later date. The officers admit that they made the chase for the cow thief in the patrol wagon - but that is all they desire to have published about the affair. Nothing more.