I'm Afraid This Won't End Well

From the Hobart Gazette of October 6, 1911:

Chas. Chester, who lives on the Sykes farm, has been missing quite a number [of] chickens of late, and last Tuesday evening when he came home saw a man coming out of the yard and called to him but the man ran. Mr. Chester is not disposed to harm anyone, but it would be well for callers to stop at the residence instead of the chicken house, as there is something besides chickens in the chicken house now. A trap is a bad thing to get into.

Let's hope he doesn't kill anybody.