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Show cealed elation. The on!v other comprint for like offense ever enteral In the City court, was one made a few weeks ago against a Japanese. pany. saw the act and at once entered complaint. ' ' Powell demanded a "Jury trial, which was set for this afternoon. Electing to try his 'own case, he tactfully began by saying that he did not expect to get a fair trial. He did not shoot the bird and It was a iust case of his word against Neft's and Neff lied. Admonished that contempt of court might prove more cost ly than killing a sonar bird he veered from personalities ' to generalities. One witness for the prosecution testified that immediately after he heard the shot he saw Powell enter his bouse and heard him begin playing on t' clarinet whiQh he soon put aside for the -piano. Referring to this, Powell said his father was very fond of music not the amateurish, ama-teurish, untrained warble of a bird but muHlc The Jury said yultly with ill-con- EOY FIHED 23 F0H HILLING SONG CI HP MONROVIA. April 2? Perclval Powell who. with his Invalid father, recently came from Los Angeles to Monrovia, waa fined $20 this af ternoon by Justice Hollo-way Hollo-way for shooting a mocking bird. There, by hangs a tale of grief and wrath. Inter. wov5n. wUh a thread of comedy. The grief la that of Powell's neghbors. who mourn their long familiar feathered trou-bador: trou-bador: Powell's, the wrath and comedy, the latter being contributed unwittingly. On the ground that It annoyed his father, Powell asked City Marshal Miller a few days since to either grant him permission per-mission to shoot the blithesome soloist or to come up and arrest his vocal exercises. exer-cises. He was referred to the game warden. war-den. Deciding to take the law In his own hands, he soon ended forever the joyous mating-song of the bird that, the neighbors neigh-bors say,, has nested In their shade trees for several years. He had been fed and protected so that he was almost fearless of mankind. Jacob Neff. a teamster In the employ of the B. R. Davison com- |