| Show CHICKEN THIEVES the notorious marsh family in ID the he toil chicken thieves have flourished for same time in this city as many poultry owners have learned to their sorrow several gongs gangs of boys have bee aught and punished for robbing hen bea roosts boosts but still the nefarious business went on mr Rio heys loss of forty flee fine fowls debt bt before last started the search for the thieves again in good earnest andakis and this morning when it was reported that a chicken coop in the third ward had bad been raided and seventeen plump birds taken and that S brown bad lost six more the clue thus octa detained ined was successfully followed the footmarks foot marks in the fresh snow showed that one of the marauders was a little ame in one foot and an officer immediately spotted it as that ot of james marsh the marsh residence was was accordingly visited and when the of officer fleer was outto ao enter he saw james dart out oat the backdoor back door minus hat bat coat and vest and run through toe the block as for dear life there were only two small boys four and six years of age in the ati house who when questioned showed themselves to be expert economizers of the truth tte the place was searched and mr browns six chickens we wea discovered in laa Is wa washtub ready cle cleaned ed tor for market A farther seared search revealed that la in the cellar was a gunny sack filled with feathers heads legs etc of a great number of stolen fowls while these investigations were go ingoe james marsh returned to the vicinity of the house bouse and was arrested seeing that he was fairly c caught lu all b he made a clean breast of the aff affair aar he ud his father george marsh took upon labor of oi ou the chickens while mrs marsh cleaned mem and disposed of most of them to the palace restaurant at 25 20 cents each the game has been a systematic sy ofia one and marsh has ba trained all of his eh children 1 taren to be accomplished thieves ap ai one time he be bad a boy 12 13 or 14 yeara of a age e stopping at his house houpo and d woul would take him out and comp compel him to go in and hand band the fowls out to those who at stood od outside marsh senior to is also in inus custod tody and his wife will probably soon fin find y herself in fri the grasp of the law the whole business will be e thoroughly ventilated in n justice Pv pers court and there is na no doubt but the guilty family will receive their just deserts |
