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Show was without means of support H was accompanied in the egg raid by Hearn. Hell stated that he picked up thp eggs, thinking that they might be fcood He knew it was the habit of ! grocery stores to "sometimes throw away their bad eggs." and that "they sometimes made a mistake and threw cut Home of the good ones." He was trying his hand at getting hold of a few good eggs for lunch. He sal.l h end hln partner intended taking the e;;gs to a friend's place where the Investigation as to the value of th "pickup" was to be made. "I think this man Is better oft lu Jail," said the judge, "so I will sentence sen-tence him to serve ten day with the man who pleaded guilty. It may he Pint in the course of ten days the men will tak? a new view of thiogs end got to work." EGG STORY TOLD IN COURT John Bell and George Hearn wer arraigned In police court this morn-iiif. morn-iiif. tor vagrancy. The former pleaded "not guilty," the latter stating frankly frank-ly that he was a vag. The testimony given ngainst Bell was that on the night of August 17, r.'iar tho midnight hour, ho was seen to gather up a number of eggs from the rear of a grocery store on lower Twenty fifth street and sttart to mak-1 iivay with thr-m. He would give no satisfactory account of himself, and |