HORSE FIEND AT WORK.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST A CITY LAUNDRY.
A .series of apparently deliberate at* tempts ho.B boon rnado during tbo past week or so to kill or maim liorios belonging to tbo Victoria. Laundry Company. Tho horses, for some ot which there have been no drivers since the strike, havo been kept in a paddock i.u Hanson Street,, adjoining the laundry. On one si-do ot tho pn.di.ioek is a steep bank, with a drop of about- 25 feet to the laundry building .below, between which and the bottom of tho bank is a narraw space of about three feet. Last Sunday iveok tiho post and rail foaco a t the top of the baaik was found broken down, ana ono of the delivery oast horses was found at tho , bottom af tiso bank. The animal-was fortunately uninjured, and no significance was attached to the occurrence. Mr. Naismith, the managing director of the company, states that ho was, however, puzzled to discover any reason for the finreo breaking down tho rail and tobogganing down the bank, wJiidh is exceedingly steep. Tho horses ■had been kept ill the paddock for years, and nothing of tho sort had' ever happened before.
Last Sunday r child brought in word that another of the laundry liorses was through the fence and down tho bank Again. Tho animal was got out, and wnß also by good luck practically unin» jured. An examination of tho top of tlw bank was made, and there was every indication that the horse had been deliberately forced over.
What now appeared to bo a deliberate campaign against thd horses Was 'advanced a step farther daring the following night, for yesterday 0110 horse was found with a groit gash in tho abdomen about ton iiichcs long by five inches deep. Tho animal was examined yesterday by a veterinary surgeon, ana Mr. Seed, inspector for the Society for the. Prevention of . Cruelty to Animals, and both are stated to have expressed the opinion that the cut was apparently deliberately made with 1 some sharp instniment such as a pruning knife. Mr. Naismith's theory is that the perpetrator of the outrage, having failed to kill tr maim the. horsos by driving them ovet the bank, has now adopted other tactics. The police ivro now investigating tho matter,
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1915, 25 November 1913, Page 6
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384HORSE FIEND AT WORK. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1915, 25 November 1913, Page 6
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