Show YOUNGSTERS HELD HEft BY THE POUCE I Two Boys Admit Stealing Chickens From Many Coops in This City After Aftel being baffled for or more than three months in their efforts to cover coer the chicken who hava hao been heen malting making life miserable for poul pout try owners in nil all parts of the city lately the police last la t night through an m accident discovered tho th thieves when Sheriff Barlow Wilson tele telephoned telephoned telephoned phoned the police station that he had captured Oliver Drysdale aged 10 1 G Gand and Myers aged 14 H with a apack atack tack pack containing five live lIce chickens n which they ther said Raid thc they intended to sell seH to the Potter cafe At first t 11 he I iwo to O boys denied having o ri tie ow and the tho younger er of f th B that he hc Nad haTi gotten them 1 at a his home and was on his hl way wa to sell them for or his hi parents paren ts Under ion however Drysdale finally admitted that they thc had hid stolen the birds birda from a ahen ahen ahen hen house in the rear of a dwelling near the Sacred Heart and after getting started Sheriff Sherli Wilson said that apparently they her could not relieve relle themselves of o their misdeeds quickly enough They The wore ole taken to the police station tation and confessed to at nt least a dozen robberies In the last month in each ench of which they ther admit admitted admitted ted having baing secured from four our to eight fowls At one place a n fancy rooster was stolen while at the residence ol or orBert Bert Eert A Bowman the boys bors admitted having stolen five fie chickens which they ther sold for 12 1 l 12 cents a pound to the Potter cafe and which Mr MI Bow Bowman Bowman Bowman man sayi sa g arc are worth five times that thai amount The five birds found in the posses josses possession sion of or the boys bos were taken to the theli house li from rom which they ther had been stolen and put Jack back In the hen house without the thc owner being aware of the fact that they the had been stolen as he was away when the birds wore taken and antI had not returned when the police took look back hack the stolen fowls After ACter be lug lut taken to the police pollee station both hoth boys admitted stealing chickens from time to time and said that at least three dozen chickens had been sold fold to the Potter cafe and all after aHer dark When hen questioned as to whether or 01 not nol Mr Ir Potter had asked them where they got the fowls owls they the said that ho had and they thov had told him the they ther I brought the birds from rom home Other lots of fowls Yore were sold Bold the boys bos say sar sayto sarto sayto to the Grill restaurant and to the I Grill meat market at the same price The Tho boa bos bo s will vilh be turned over oer to the juvenile court |