Show CONVICTED FOR SELLING EASTER CHICKENS CHICKEN new york may alay 21 gaston faivre has been convicted through the efforts of the society for the prevention of cruelty to Animals for selling easter chickens last paster easter in violation of a section of tile the penal code which states that a person who furthers any act of cruelty to any animal or any act tending to produce cruelty Is guilty of a misdemeanor this is the first time that the selling of easter chickens has been construed is as falling under this section although the society has been trying for years to stop the practice on grounds that after tile the chickens are purchased they are allowed to starve or are killed through the carelessness of children calvre was arrested af bof special agent calhoun of the so clety for the prevention of cruelty to animals had seen several new cincu bated chicks before easter and had seen a little hoy boy buy others |