Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1916 — BIRD SINGS AT WRONG TIME [ARTICLE]

BIRD SINGS AT WRONG TIME

Detroit Girl Who Loves Canaries Is Arrested for Stealing Songster. Detroit. —Miss Nina Plock of No. 96 Adams avenue east, loves canary birds. If she were rich, she would have an aviary full of them. Her idea of bliss Is to have just as many canary birds as she can find room for In her house. The sweetest musiff in the world to her Is the canary’s song. But a canary’s solo, piped at the wrong moment, landed her in the police court. She had been arrested at the behest of Royce & Passmore, bird dealers. They told Justice Sellers that she entered their store recently and asked to look at some birds. When the clerk’s back was turned she put one of the feathered songsters in her waist and then told the man that she guessed she would not buy any. Just as she was leaving the canary began to sing. He sang loudly. The clerk barred the way to the door and sent another clerk to the corner for a policeman. Miss Plock was arrested. Twice before the woman has been in court for the larceny of canary birds, say. the officers. This time she was fined $lO, 'with the alternative of 30 days in the house of correction. And she had to give back the yellow soloist.