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Vagabond Cow Finds Legal HomeW*y Peggy Cocked One Ear Finally Leads Her Back as a Fixture in Barn of J. D. LeComte at Pasadena(By Associated Press)HOUSTON. Sept. 4.—Peggy was just a vagabond cow. but the way she always cocked one car led her back, at last to her legel home.She Is a fixture in the bam of J. D. LeComte at Pasadena and she is. by the great ??al of Justice of the Fe2Ci? -J. W. Ml-Long Distance Flight EffortuIs AnnouncedPaul Codoi, Friend and Air Associate of Coste, Plans to Fly “Question Mark” in Return Hop to EuropePARIS. Sept. 4. Paul Codos friend end aviation associate ol Dteudpnnc Coste. may attempt to make a new long distance flight record when he brings .the ?'* across the Atlantic from New York.When Codos sails, as yet undetermined. he will take with him the mechanic. Vernon, a specialist in timing up engines, and also a new-motor exactly like the one used In the westward flight across the Atlantic. He will have two supplementary gas tanks which Coste discarded before he took off from Le Bourget as unnecessary.Codos would like to fly from New York to Bagdad, or at least from New York to Aleppo. All he has to say is: “It remains to be worked out. 31 is no good counting your chickens before they arc hatched. There will be plenty of time to make plans when I get tolam, the sole and exclusive property of J. D. LeComte,Justice Milam was brought into the matter through an action In law which Jonah Boyd lodged after becoming convinced that the cow might be Peggy to Mr. LeComte but was just his cow to Mr. Boyd. Seeing Peggy being led away by the Pasadena cow catcher Mr. Boyd was convinced that here was an error in Identity—that the cow was Mr. Boyd's peional cow, offspring of Mr. Boyd's Jersey— and not Mr. ?/cComte*s cow at alLStands FirmMr. LeComte stood firm on the proposition that it was Peggy and none other. Ensued then the trial of the cause of action and came on the witnesses. Mr. and Mrs. 3oyd. J. W. FoHis, Mrs. Vine T^bor and Mrs. M. Wr Seay testified that the cow was not Peggy, but the missing child of Jersey. Mrs. Tabor was sure because Jersey's daughter was ]» wars pestlcatine” around; Mrs. Seay felt positive because of the matter of the miwtng prodigal's facial expression: Mrs. Boyd suld she knew it Just as she would one of her children.Mrs. LeComte came on in rebuttal. She told how she had raised Peggy from babyhood; she submitted picture* of Peggy and two LeComte children. T. E. Haggard Identified the cow-35 Peggy by side markings and hauled the court down to the cow to point out the markings. Mr. LeComte added his bit In the testimony.Justice Mil am. marshalling the testimony and the pictures, decided it was Peggy—that the pictures showed it Peggy, due to Peggy's habit of thrusting out one car cocked and holding the other in.
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Morning Avalanche
Lubbock, Texas, US
Fri, Sep 05, 1930
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