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Show Nsah Webster Saves Deck Haaiers From Prniishmeat by Lav Delicate Difference Between Be-tween "Sink Hole" and "Sink Box." P COL'XSKL for the defense. Wch- stor ton a'quitttil yesterday before Tierhort Van Dam, Jr., justice of the peaee. for Gilbert Gillespie and llnrr- l.lttlefnir. As a result, Instrail of carrying a fine-inflicted fine-inflicted achins void in t lie purse porket, the two me:i had each more, upon 1av-lnp 1av-lnp tho courtroom tha n when they ap-lK-iLred before the comniittinp mnpistratft. They were cliMrvred with violating the Rnme law by slicotjr.s: ducks from "sink finles." When they vtnf taken into court several weeks ngo forty-nine ducks were introduced as evidence. "With the consent of the defendants, tlie rourt ordered the birds sold and tlie money, 5-12, placed in evidence. The stiitc phowed that the men had shot tlie ducks from a "sink hole" made by dipirlnR u hole, in a slouch, using tlie mud removed to bunk it nRainst tho inflow in-flow of wnier. Rut the justice found that the law does not refer to a "sink hole." but to a "sink box." :is a prohibited point of vantage from whicch the duel; hunter may briiiR down hi.s quarry. Referring to Webster's di-tionarj- he found that a "sink box" Is defined there us a sunken part of a raft that may he floated from : place to place on the water. Taking the pround that the distinction between a "sink box" and a "sink hole" must be one of locomotion, and finding nothing In the law to prohibit shooting from "sink holes" or "blinds," the court found the defendants not guilty, gave them the proceeds pro-ceeds of the Sitle of ducks and nl lowed them to go. |