Show MISSOURI HENS NOW SAFE Chicken Stealing to Become a Lost Art rt Now So Soa a Felony Jefferson City Mo Io Fob Feb 25 The The f.-The The supreme court has decided what is known as a tho the chicken law to be valid This law was sas Ia ed at the in instance instance instance in- in stance of the Poultry Raisers' Raisers asso- asso aso- aso elation of the state slate last winter to protect their hen coops from nightly raids rids by chicken thieves thieve J LI J. J makes chicken stealing a a. felon felony A test case was brought before the court from Audrain county where Jack had been convicted of or stealing chickens chickens chick chick- ens and sentenced to three years years' Imprisonment imprisonment imprisonment im Im- im- im In the penitentiary The supreme court has affirmed this sen sen- tence Presumably chicken stealing will wi become something of a lost art In Missouri In III the future particularly In localities where there there is a poultry association And Anc the number of poultry poultry poul poul- try tr associations that are now IO being being organized all al over the state suggests that It I Is going to be a n pretty hard matter mater for a chicken thief to select selecta a n locality ocl whore where It will wi bo be sate safe for an Individual to be found in another's mans man's henhouse The fact that tho ho surplus poultry products of Missouri 18 last year ear amounted to more than several so eral times greater than tho the surplus sur sur- plus Ius wheat crop shows crop shows that the lie pro pro- of poultry has passed the lit stage of or merriment The Missouri legislature has 1115 placed Its disapproval on the thc predatory predator prowler who goes gocs about nights lookIng lookIng look- look Ing log for fat pullets and ane the su supreme remo court says 56 that the law does not violate vie vio 10 late any of the provisions of th the con- con and therefore it must the be b enforced en en- forced The sheriff of or Audrain count county brought McGuIre to the penitentiary It I mo may be remarked here that ho tc Is Isa Isa a white man so race prejudice cannot be alleged as a rem reason on for fOI his con con- on- on It t I |