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DOG KICKED TO DEATH.
AUCKLAND, March 7. A charge of cruelly kicking a dog and thereby causing it unnecessary suffering was admitted by a young man, Harry Robert Willis,- in the Police Court, before Mr F. Iv. Hunt, S.M. Detective-Sergeant McHugh said it was a particularly brutal act. Accused was walking along Pitt Terrace in company with a girl friend, who had a dog on a lead. A fox terrier pup aged three months apiirbaehed the other dog in a playful manner, and accused, “being a hero,” kicked it. • The animal collapsed in a dying condition, and died -shortly after. The terrier had been purchased by its owner for 255. Accused alleged that when the girl put out her foot to separate the two dogs the terrier attacked her. Accused was convicted and ordered to pay costs of £2 ss.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1933, Page 2
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