PIZZOLO'S FELINE VICTIMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 739, 11 February 1879, Page 2

PIZZOLO'S FELINE VICTIMS.

We learn from the Sim Francisco Bulletin that—-Charted —Pizznlo,—an Italian, who keeps a sausage shop on Dupont alleys dear Pacific street, was before the Police Court lately on a charge df cruelty to animals. H|s offence consisted iti cutting, off. the tails of si number of cats. The officer unrolled a small paper package, and revealed to the Court the tail d£ the last of Pizzolo’s feline victims. John Morton, a hoy about 14. informed" the Court that he had sold Pizz lo a larj/e number of cats, in fact at 10, cents apiece he had made qui’e a thriving livelihood by capturing all the stray tabbies found in the neighbourhood and carrying them to the satlage fchop. “ When I bring him Cats,*’ continued the Witness, “he cuts their tails off with a cleaver, then lid dips the stump into a barrel of salt, and puts the cat on the floor, and she runs around pretty lively/’

Defendant's. Attorney : I object td any testimony as to any cats except thb one whose tall is now on your Honor’s desk. We have that cat and that tail under Consideration, and no other cats or cats* tails ought to come into this Court Until we have found the cat to which this tail ohde belonged. Judge: There is something very peculiar about these tails. 1 think we had better have settle light as - to the defendant’s motive* (To the boy ;) Do you know whether he made sausages out of these cats 1 Boy No, I don’t know what he did with the Cats after he cut off their tails. Fred.; Brooks* another lad, testified to selling Pi&4<»lo a dozen cats. Officer Supple, formerly a butcher* was called as art expert. He said that bleeding would make the cat’s flesh white, CrossieXattiihed I 1 never knew that if a Cat’s tail were cut off she would stay about the place where it - had been taken off. Have had rto experience iit Cutting off cats’ tails, but 1 think it Would make the meat, white. Think that sausages made oUt 6! Cats whose tads had been Cut off previously to their being killed would bp. an excellent imitation of pork sausages.. The J udge expressed a strong desire to hear what the defendant had to say as to his motive In tail-cutting, and Pizzolo finally took the stand and ex-* p'airted that his place abounded , with rats, and that he had bought four or five cats from the boys. He cut off theiC tails, because the loss of the tails, he declared* Would make them , more healthy. He denied having made any sausages out of the Cats. Pizzolo was ordered to appear for sentence, and fined SO dole.