Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-16 | Page 12 | Story of a Chicken with a Broken Neck

SIM OF it n WITH I BROKEN ' ICK f U would have sounded a good deal I' more interesting If it had been put to ET music, but thero was no Verdi in court Dli to do the necessary composing. For fll all that, whether in music or in prose, m verbal statement, it could not have U been more difficult for Judge Barker J to estimate the niceties of the rights ' I v and wrongs of the case. It was this way. Clementine Ver- 'U1 nardi and Bruno Perri arc Italian res- m idents of this city, and live each by, I each on Spencer avenue. They aro I both industrious. They each own E their property. Bruno's energies in I, i his spare tlmo this year have run to B a war garden, and Clementine's to the; Hi . keeping of chickens. Both splendid enterprises as you wfll admit. But HI There Is a but. N Clementine's chickens look to en- II joving daily walks in Bruno's garden. U and that you will admit also, helped the food situation immediately because If the chickens got bigger and fatter. Yet H. Bruno's garden did not prosper to nn P equal degree and in his own words, H "Last night 1 got mad and I twisted HIi tho neck of one of them, and broke Hi the legs of another." Hlf Consequently Clementine Vernardl IH1 has recourse to the law and Bruno was Hft arrested. This morning, in court he M protested that his neighbor should Bf keep her chickens on her own land, t "So she ought, but you have no right y to kill or maim them, either," said the If Judge. Attornev Reeder thought a small fine ought to bo imposed. The judge I took tho case under advisement until 1 1 tomorrow, g Oh this war! oo