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Show , spectators and those said to be behind the great sporting event were caught. There were so many prisoners that it w-as necessary to lock several of them in the courtroom, as there was a short- age of cells at the Jail. When arraigned ar-raigned In court, forty-six of the men were fined $10 each, but the question of disposing of the fighting birds has proved a puzzle. The game fowls are still held by the police, crowing loudly loud-ly although locked in cells at the station sta-tion house. POLICE BROKE UP A i COCK FIGHT IN NEW YORK New Rochelle. N. Y., Feb. 15.-Act-ing on a tip. the police swooped down' i?1e ?.f,th. b,Sest Co fights ever neld In Westchester county earlr Sunday Sun-day morning and took In fortv-nine ! prisoners, twenty-four birds and an ' aborted lot of paraphernalia iisPd In cocking mains. Among the prisoners ' as a man said to be an agent for tho j Society fr the Prevention of CruMtv to Animals at Mount Vernon. V " y wh!nflfKht W?f u,ldGrwa- n a 8aW wnen the police appeared. Durlnir the " scramble several men managed to J-queeze through windows and moke' Uielr escape but the majorlt,- of tho |