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Show PRISON FOR TAKING HENS Chicken 'TMctcs Given Stiff Sentences onBur-. onBur-. glary Charges. Six years' Imprisonment was the price fixed by Jydge Armstrong Friday as the value -of ten chickens stolen by J. D. Sparks and Frank Edgington on the night of November 24. 1904. The two men felt that a chicken dinner would taste good on Thanksgiving day. and as they had no fowls of their own, they decided to visit the hennery of J. A. Williams. Ten nice, ' fat chickens were taken from their perch and all looked well for a nice dinner, but Mr. Williams complained to the officers, and the two men were arrested on the charge of burglary. bur-glary. Edgington entered a plea of guilty to the charge of petty larceny In the District court some time ago and was sentenced to six months In the county Jail. Sparks was tried and convicted of the charge of burglary on Tuesday of this week, while Edgington entered a plea of guilty to the same charge on Wednesday. Both men appeared before Judge Armstrong Arm-strong Friday morning; for sentence. Sparks was given three years In the State prison, while Edgington was sentenced to two years and a half In the same Institution, Institu-tion, his sentence to commence at the expiration ex-piration of his sentence in the county Jail. |