PIZZOLO'S FELINE VICTIMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 46, 22 February 1879, Page 4

PIZZOLO'S FELINE VICTIMS.

We learn from the San Franuaco Bulletin that Charles Pizzolo, an Italian, who keeps a sausage shop on Dupont alley, near Pacific street, was before the Police Court lately on a charge of cruelty to animals His offence consisted in cutting effthe tails of a number of cats. The officer unrolled a smill paper package, and revealed to the Court the tail of the last of Pi__olo _ feline victims. -John Morton, a boy about 14, informed the Court that he bad sold Pizzolo a large number of cats, in fact at 10 cents apiece ho had made quite a thriving livlihoou by capturing ' all the stray tabbies found iv th n . neighborhood and carrying thera to the sausage shop. " When I bring him cats," continued the witness, "he cuts their tails off with a cleaver, then he dips the stump into a barrel of salt, and puts the cat on the flonr, and she runs around pretty lively." Defendants Attorney : I object to any testimony as to any cats except the one whose tail is now on your Honor's deßk. We have that cat aud that tail under consideration, and no other cats or cata' tails ought to come- into this Court until we have found the cat to which this tail once belonged. Judge : There ia something very peculiar about these tails. I thiuk wo bad better have some light as to tha defendant's motive. (To tbe boy :) Do you know whether he made sausages out of these cats ? Boy : No, I don't know what be did with tbe cats after he cut off their tails. 1. re?. Brooks, another lad, testified to selling Pizzolo a dozen c_ts. Officer Supple, formerly a butcher, was called as an expert. He said that bleeding would ratke the cat's flesh white. Cross-examineJ : I never knew that if a cat's tail were cut off she would ! stay about the place where it had been takeu off. Have bad uo experience in cutting off cat's tails, but think it would make tbe meat white. Think (hat sausages made out of cats whose tails 1 had been cut off previously to their j being killed would be an excellent imitation of pork sausages. The Judge expressed a strong desire to hear what tbe defendant had to say as to bis motive in tail-cutting, and Pizzolo finally took the stand and ex- | plaineJ that his place abounded with i rate, and that he bad bought four or five cats from the boys. He cut off their fc.ils, because the loss of their tails, he declared, would make them nJore healthy. He denied having mada any sausages out of the catg. Pizzolo was ordered to appear for eeuteoce, and fined 50 dols.