TO CATCH DOGS

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 104, 25 January 1908, Page 4

TO CATCH DOGS

' HOOKS IN A FENCE.

■ ft!Y IELEQBATH—PREB3 ASSOCIATION.) Auckland,! January 24. Mr Kettle, S.M., heard evidence this afternoon in the charge preferred against Thomas Gresham, the City Coroner,; that, on December 0, 1907, ho did cruelly ill-treat a doe by causing the same to be hooked by a fishhook. Mr. .Brookfield appeared ™ behalf oE the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty, to Animals, and Mr. Prcndergast for.. tlie deISthel Levine deposed to hearing a dog howling, and ?he found it was hooked 111 the par. One of the fish-hooks had got into the dog's ear a'pd tore it..: It could not got loose until she released it. praduced a hook, which she stated she had cut from the place. No little, animal could have got 'through W'ithput being bpoked. Mr Gresham told her he put the hook there because some dog bad injured his ; fpwls Frederick Gaudin said that Ins dog was brought to him with a aewtod ear, and bleeding considerably. The a fox terrier pup, about three months old. Pie took tho dog over to defendant, and asked for an explanation, defendant told tl at docs had been worrying him lately, and lis nut' fish-hooks in the fence to catch them. Witness asked defendant if he did not think the practice a cruel one, and defendant replied that ho reserved the right to protect h, 'Po P rThe'defence it was argued that defendant's action was perfectly legal; »"d that tin' hid a right to prevent the dogs from trespassing on , his 'property by whatever motliod he wished. Defendant said . the hooks were placed on the fence tp prick end tho and not to cateh them. Jlr. Kettle reserved Ins judgment.

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