STARTLING REVELATIONS.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 118, 1 February 1879, Page 3

STARTLING REVELATIONS.

We learn from the ‘ San Francisco Bulletin ’ that Charles Pizzolo. an Italian, who keeps a sausage shop on Dupont-allev, near Pacific-street, was he'ire the-Police Court lately on a charge of cruelty to animals. UL offence consisted in cutting off the tails of a number of cats. The ~ examination revealed a state of affairs in sausage business not specially reisswriug to the lovers ->f that, myst-lion sly made vi-.nd. The c,fficer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal-, who made the arrest, informed the Court that he had heard that the defendant had been extensive'y engug-d in buying up all the felines in the neighbourhood ; that they were brought to the sausage shop by boys, who received 10 cems a-piece for tliem, and that Pizzolo was in ihe habit of immediately chopping off their tails, but the fate of the cals after having been deprived of their carnal appendages was a dark mystery, to which the. only clue was believed by some to be s-us ges. In proof of his assertions, the officer unrolled a small paper package, and revealed to the Court the last of Pizzolo’s feline victims. John Morton, a boy about 14, informed the Court that he had sold Pizzolo a large number of cats —in fact, at 10 cents apiece he had made quite a thriving livelihood by capturingij-alPSthe stray tabbies found iii.tlie. neighbour)! od and carrying 11 mn "to-'the sa u s age c; "si i op. “ When I bring dfinlveatsj”; witness “he cuts their, tails, oflL with., a cleaver, then he di|is‘ s 'tlio'ktmufm , fnio a ban. 1 of salt, and puts the and she runs around pretty lively. Defendant’s Attorney : I object to any testimony as to any cats except the one whose tail is nowon ymir Honoi’s desk Wo have that eat and tail under ton- ■ sideration, and no other cats or cats’ tails ought to come into this Court until we have found the cat to whi, h this tail un-e belonged. Judge : There is something very peculiar about these tails. I flunk we had better have some light as to. the defendant’s motive. (To the boy) ; Do you know whether he made sausages out of these cats ? 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 P’zzolo a dozen cats. Officer Supple, formerly a bub her, was called as an expert. He said that bleeding would make the cat’s flesh white. Cross-examined : I nev r knew that if a cat’s tai -were cut off she wou’d stay about the place where it had been taken off. Have hud no experience in cutting off cats’ tails, but think it wmi'd make the meat white. Think that sausages made out of cats whose tails had been cut off previously to their lining killed wmi'il be i an exc' lient imititation of pork smn-ages. The Judge expressed a strong' desir-- to bear what the defendant had to s- y as to bis motive i'i tail-cutting, and Pizzolo finally took ihe stand and ex ma hi d that his p]a--e abounded v itli rats, and that he bad bought four or five eats from the He cut i heir tails off, because the mm,-.' 1 .! f the tails, lie declared, won’d make them more healthy. H" denied having any sausages out of the cats. Pi: zolo was ordered to appear for sentence, and fiimd oOdols.