Then Resumes His Flight With a Stolen Lamb.
 Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois, on 04/17/1907.
   Frederick Hollenbach, a farmer living on the Schoharie Ridge, near Saegersville, was feeding the gray squirrels in his woodland when an eagle flew past that had in its talons one of his lambs. The big bird had been annoying the community for a month. many farmers wanted to shoot it, but the game warden threatened to invoke the law providing for a $250 fine and imprisonment for killing a bold eagle. The eagle was flying low, and thinking he could save the lamb, Mr. Hollenbach struck the bird sharply with a stick. The eagle dropped the lamb all right, but instead of flying off made for the man, ripping open his face, his hands and chest with its talons and practically tearing off his clothes. After it had Hollenbach lying prostrate in the woods the eagle picked up the lamb and flew off. Hollenbach is in bed, with a doctor attending him.-Philadelphia Ledger.
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