HUNTED STAGS TORTURE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2005, 12 March 1914, Page 3

HUNTED STAGS TORTURE.

m THE NAME OF SPORT. The residents of Hayes, near'. TJxbridge, recently witnessed the revolting spectacle' of "a Stag' being 'hunted throußh, their main, street, arid, in*'an exhausted state- and bleeding from wounds caused in leap.iriK'over"railing, taking refuge in,'a pond, from-.which" it was. lassoed. Owing to the serious nature of its injuries, the wretched beast had to be destroyed..''

• the stag was released liear -Stoke Poges for tho amusement of the'members «f Messrs. Headingten's'Hunt. It caused many "shocks" "in the village of Cowley, says' the_ "JKddlesos and Busks Advertiser," jumping over walls and passingthrough .gardens, • It went away to Viewsley, 'where, it gave a resident "quite a fright.''' A woman was standing in her., kitchen' When the stag came and put its.head in through 'tlie open door. {

The stag then essayed to jinjijp an iron fence, andtipoii this the Wortmi&te animal got impaled,- but'' after a terrible struggle it released .. itself and Sought refuge in the'middle of a pond. The poor brute was by this time finite worn out, and was. bleeding from its wounds. With difficulty it was lassoed and taken to some stables tear by, and it-was found that, its injuries were so serions that it was ; thero killed.