FOWL’S THREE LIVES

Shannon News, 30 April 1926, Page 4

FOWL’S THREE LIVES

STRANGE COURT CASE. In a case at Bradford in February, in which Alexander Clark, of poncaster, was summoned for causing unnecessary suffering to two fowls, it was stated that thrc e fowl were consigned by the defendant from Doncaster to Bradford in a sack. On arrival one fowl was found to be deart and another dying, while a third avus in an • exhausted condition and was killed a fortnight later. A railwayman said he killed the fowl that w'as dying, but James Pawson, to whom the fowls were consigned, stated that he killed it, while Clark said he wrung the necks of all three fowls before sending them off and thought they were dead. In dismissing the summons the magistrate . said tli e R.S.P.C.A. had taken the proper course in bringins; the proceedings.