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Show LHJ CAPTURE OF A CHICKEN THIEF Early this morning Deputy Sheriffs DeVlne and Ludwlg were called to Roy to take charge of a chicken thief captured there by residents of the district- Tho fellow was caught red-handed red-handed with chickens which he had stolen from the hen roost of William Hardy. There wero four chickens in the bag the thief was carrying. Tho fellow was brought to tho coun- tv jail where he will bo held, pendln? trial for petit larceny He g1ve3 his name as John Blackburn, and is the man held in tho county jail some time ago for vagrancy. Tho officers Bay that the man is an inveterate morphine mor-phine user and that at nearly all times is scarcely accountable for what he does. When released from tho county Jail a short time ago ho was accompanied accom-panied by an officer to a distance away from the city and he promised he ould leave tho country, but. it seems, he changed his mind and drifted drift-ed to Ro. |