DROWNING A CAT
For cruelty to a cat by not killing it in a proper manlier, to which they pleaded not guilty, Airs E. M. Glcnister, of 74 Brighton road, Turley, and her servant, Edith Clark, were lined 40s each at Croydon. Mrs Glcnister had also to pay C 3 3s costs. According to the evidence, the cat was placed in a sack with a flat-iron, and put into a dustbin full of wafer. The lid was then put on. The cat struggled for about half an hour. Neighbors heard its cries and one of them fetched an inspector of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The cat was then very exhausted, and, considering that it was tho _ greater cruelty to revive it, he held it under water until it was dead. Evidence was given that the two womch stood laughing at the struggles of tho cat, but' the defence was that this was hysteria, as they became frightened at the animal’s tenacity and did not know what to do.
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Evening Star, Issue 19665, 19 September 1927, Page 12
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174DROWNING A CAT Evening Star, Issue 19665, 19 September 1927, Page 12
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