Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-03-03 | Page 25 | Bee Vindicated as Jury Awards $6300 for Death of 20 Million

Bee Vindicated as Jury Awards s For Death of 20 Million CHICAGO March 2 Dead AP-Dead Dead tP-Dead h honey oney bees a superior court jury iury decided d today are worth worth about of a cent each The jury d did id not fix a value tor be bees s on tile the h hoof but it did by Its verdIct give t th he entire b bee e a a. re i f for or Industry honesty and sobriety a after fter the character ot of bees has been a attacked For a week the court of JUdge John J ohn had buzzed with thIs b bee ee business J. J W. W Cunnea and E Exra Ross floss of Morris Ill sued the R Rock ock Island railroad for c claiming laiming that hives of bees bees- s some ome of them had dIed o on n their first railroad trip a ride from Pike Ilke Road Ala to Morris Ill Iii DISAGREE ON CAUSE The railroad did not dispute the d demise emise but there was much dIsagreement dIs- dIs a agreement as to the cause The c saId holes in the car r roofs allowed the rain to come In Inand a and nd the bees were drowned outright o or r dIed slow show deaths later from the b bee ee equivalent of Influenza and p pneumonia The railroad produced a bevy of b bee experts who told of the strange goings on In a bee hive Dees said I the experts were not the Industrious Industrious Indus Indus- home loving creatures generally generally gen gen- One witness said bees were like ilke gangsters only Worse vorse and told blood curdling stories of the hijacking of a bee hive by a a. rival swarm without provocation Another bee said bees were cannibals and consumed their young while a thIrd testified they were too temperamental to t travel on rails EVOLVE THEORIES From thIs testimony the railroad evolved Its theories The bees the attorneys said had been hijacked and killed by a swarm of wild bees They suddenly developed cannibal tendencies and had eaten each other other oth- oth er or they had been possessed of a fit of temperament and buzzed about with excitement until they dropp dropped d dead But the jury would have none of It ThE twelve good men and true started deliberation on bee behavior last night Toda Today they brought In Ina ina a verdict of for the complainants complain complain- ants about one eighth the amount asked but a vindication of the bees