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Show CORNER IN CROW MEAT LANDS TWO IN JAIL BKRLTN. June 1. The German food speculators have extended their activities ac-tivities even to crows, which are In great demand on account of the ecarrlty of other meat. Emll Andre, a merchant, and Richard Pocha, a retired buaineaa man. recently were sentenced to two weeks. Imprisonment and laO fine each by a IWIIn court, becauae tbey tried to create a "comer" In youne: crows and eold 4be btrda at exorbitant prloes. The two speculators entered a large number of boys to shoot crows and obtained from 1M to to birds a day. 1 They paid on the average IS cents i apiece for them. The crows were shipped to Berlin, where game dealera. hotel and restaurant keepers eagerly bought thera at prices ranging from 0 to to cents each. i The average profit or the usurers 1 amounted to a day. until tha authorities stepped In end put an end to thetr lucrative business. |