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Show ; Killing Deer For Starving; Families Brings Mercy IHea ! . . . ; BURLINGAME, Calif., Feb. 18 A justice of the peace in this i wealthy city ured today that two men be spared the consequences of killing meat so their families would not starve. . Letrally. the two men and a third nre in admitted violation of the law. ; To hold them Ruilty. according to j Justice Percy V. Jackson, would be ! 'an indictment of society." I R. J. Shane. Richard Ludlow and 1 Money Coleman appeared before t Justice Jackson when they were ; caught with a deer Shane and Lud- L Mow had killed. Coleman helped, they said. . ) "We ha.d no money." Siiane said. ' "That's why we killed the deer. I r broke my les six weeks ago and hHve been jobless since. Ludlow also ; was jobless. We both had hungry babies. The children were going to ; school without shoes or stocings. . Coleman only agreed to help, he-'. he-'. cause he knew how hings werc." Joseph Smalley, storekeeper, was i to appear ill' another justice's court charged with buving the venison , for I Justice Jackson said he would do what he could for the men. |