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By Margaret Leidy Harner from her book One Day at a Time: A Social History of Boyertown, PA.
July 1, 1893: An important arrest today when Constable Kline bagged three men who had been making almost daily raids of petty thievery, stealing chickens, hams, meat, butter and eggs in the Half Way House neighborhood, which they then sold wholesale in Pottstown, Reading and Allentown.
Area residents had been complaining about their losses for quite some time, and finally, law enforcement officers got a break when an accomplice "let the cat out o the bag” as revenge. They were turned in by Barbara Peters, the sister-in-law of one of the culprits, William Peters, who lives with her. They were bringing the stolen goods to her house and officials found eight chickens, a fork, shovel, rake, rope, chaff bag and a lot of brain bags on her property.
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