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Peace Returns To Wadsworth.

Pet Monkey Is Captured After Upsetting Quiet Lives Of Mike Shelly And Neighbors.

After two days and two nights of terror for the household as well as the stock, all today was serene at the Mike Shelly farm near Wadsworth due to the absence of “Dynamite,” a pet monkey that was captured there last night.
The monkey belongs to George Lodesky, who lives near Gurnee. Lodesky took the monkey to the Shelly farm two days ago. The animal had a collar about the neck and a stout chain tied to it. While no one was looking the monkey unsnapped the chain and fled to the top of the silo.
Then things started to happen. Dynamite first rode the cattle until the beasts were panic stricken and exhausted. Then he jumped to the back of a hog, grabbed it by the ear, and rode it until it was puffing from exhaustion. It rode one hog after another until the stock on the Shelly farm could move no more.
Efforts were made to catch Dynamite and Shelly soon learned that if he didn’t want to be bitten by the monkey it was well to keep out of its way. Shelly armed himself with a pick handle and even the boys around the farm stepped about gingerly with clubs in their hands.
By the end of four hours the chickens were in such a state of terror that the hens quit laying.
Shelly retired to what he thought would be a well earned rest but was soon aroused when he heard a rap at the door. He opened it and discovered the monkey scampering away. Almost hourly through the night the monkey banged at the door and aroused the family.
Yesterday more than 50 neighbors gathered to watch the monkey. They got out of their cars jauntily, but soon took refuge when the monkey charged them. Some locked themselves in their cars. Others hid in the milk house.
Then the monkey found the orchard and proceeded to each tree and shook the green apples to the ground.
By that time young George “Soup” Doyle, Jr., and some other boys cornered the “pet” in the silo and hooked him through the collar. Shelly hurriedly transferred the pet back to its home grounds on the Lodesky farm near Gurnee.

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