Cattle Rustlers

Article taken from The Appleton Post Crescent, October 14, 1960

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Portsmouth, Ohio (AP)-- There are cattle rustlers in the hills of southern Ohio, but they apparently have come up with a system that their flatland cousins in the West never thought of--float their loot away on barges. That's how Sheriff C. R. Burns believes 52 head of cattle were taken from the Richard A. Selby farm. The farm stretches along the Ohio River. When deputies could find no tracks made by trucks. Burns surmised that the cattle were heared to the river bank, loaded on a barge, and floated down stream. Roger Shepherd, mananger of the farm, estimated the loss at $8,050.