"Butch" Ely Was Arrested

"Butch" Ely was arrested

Charged with stealing nineteen chickens on the Whitmore Lake Road - he is out on bail

Nineteen chickens were stolen Saturday morning from Mrs. Celia E. Goodell, who lives on the Whitmore Lake road. Saturday evening Deputy Sheriff Fred Gillen arrested George Ely, familiarly known as "Butch" Ely, charged with the chicken theft. He remained in jail over Sunday and was brought before Justice Doty Monday and waived examination. He was bound over to the circuit court and released on bail. 

It is said that one of the evidences against Ely was the fact that he sold two chickens to a boarding house which had their crops in and these crops contained the same kind of food Mrs. Goodell's chickens had been eating.