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Show Human Fox Hunt Assailed as 'Shameless MARTINEZ, CaL, Nov. 1 UP The "human fox hunt" that brought Contra Costa county and Sheriff John Miller lot of pub-licity pub-licity leu than a fortnight ego, was denounced today as "shameless" "shame-less" and "silly." ' A resolution voted by the People's Peo-ple's Legislative Conference a local branch of labor's Nonpartisan Nonparti-san league) asserted the sheriff. eeetO' lausiiiwsj es nmnns sponsor of the hunt, had "seen fit to use hi position to bring calumny and ridicule" upon the cUlMftry. :r Sheriff Miller . rounded up a hundred horsemen and horsewomen horse-women and at dawn October 21 sent them riding through the hills In search of a hiddea "fox" The "fox" was a youth who had finished fin-ished his county jail sentence and had agreed to enact the role of a human quarry. In due time five minute be-fore be-fore the official deadline set the "fox" was sighted by two women riding one horse. While a cameraman cam-eraman took picture, on of the women, Mrs. Juanlta Shaw, threw her lariat over the fugitive' shoulders. She later was awarded a $20 cash prise for her achievement. |