
Farmers Roused Out of Bed
Throwing a cordon of guards across the highway at the railroad crossing, Chief Holbrook held a parley with his colleague of the neighboring town, with the result that emissaries were sent out to every farm in Holliston and Sherborn within a radius of a mile.
Farmers sleepily crawled out of bed and went out to count their herds. None would admit missing any cows, much less two red oxen, and up until the wee small hours of the morning ownership of the herd was still a mystery.
Chief Jackson stood a wary guard at the boundary of his town and steadfastly declined to allow the herd to cross into his jurisdiction. Chief Holbrook and his cohorts managed to corral the herd in the neighborhood of the railroad station, and threatened to load them onto the 7 o’clock train this morning and ship them to the Brighton abattoir.
Chief Holbrook declared that this is the second time the mystery herd has wandered into his territory, and he’s either going to ask the Selectmen to add a set of experienced cowhorses to his mobile equipment, or ask for a special project to construct a cow-proof fence at the Sherborn boundary line.
HOLLISTON COW MYSTERY SOLVED, HERD BELONGS IN SHERBORN
Holliston, July 10, 1941 – After spending the greater part of the night playing nursemaid to a herd of nine cows and two oxen that had wandered over into his territory from Sherborn, Chief of Police Lewis T. Holbrook announced today that his hunch about them being Sherborn cattle was right in the first place, despite the reluctance of Chief of Police Harold Jackson of that town to take them in tow.
By plenty of door knocking the emissaries sent out by the police chiefs woke up about two dozen farmers who sleepily went out and counted noses in their herds, and finally Leslie L. Philbrook, residing on Western avenue in Sherborn, four miles from the scene of the traffic blockade, admitted they were his.
In the face of the admission Chief Jackson let down the bars to the town of Sherborn and Mr. Philbrook and some assistants drove the herd back home. Chief Holbrook and his weary assistants bade them a fond adieu.
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