Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1895 — Curious Cases of Cruelty. [ARTICLE]

Curious Cases of Cruelty.

A great deal of work has been done this year by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Nearly 8,000 cases of cruelty have been Investigated by its agents. Although many were settled without prosecution, and many were found to have been misrepresented, 297 were prosecuted, and in some cases quite heavy penalties ■were necessary. One man, who drove his horse to death, was sent to jail for six months. For overdriving two other men were sentenced to three and four months, respectively. As usual, there were a number of convictions for beating and kicking animals, one man being so gratuitously brutal as to beat a gray squirrel. Another man, While drunk, bit three Inches off the tall of a cat It cost him $5 an inch. Two Frenchmen were fined $5 each for exhibiting a bear. The animal was confiscated and killed, so that there will be no more cruelties practiced on that bear at any rate. A butcher was fined $lO for hanging up a steer before slaughtering him. Two men, while drunk, attempted to kill a hog with an ax. They mangled him terribly, and were each given ten months in the House of Correction. Two cases of docking horses’t tails cost the offenders SIOO each.—Boston Transcript.