"FIENDISH CRUELTY."
At the Dunedin Juvenile Court the other morning two lads, aged 13 and 14 years respectively, pleaded guilty to a charge of having cruelly illtreated a cat. |Station-Sergeant King said that the lads had taken the cat and thrown it into a vat of tar at the gasworks, and after pulling it out one of them had pinned it to the ground with a pitchfork. Thus the cat wa3 left for about 10 minutes, when the lady who owned it came along, and asked some other boys who were present to release it. The cat was alive when released, but died soon afterwards. One of the lads gave as an excuse for his act that he was a pigeon fancier, and that some of hi.-s pigeons had been killed, and he though that perhaps this cat had killed them. The magistrate said that the act war. one of fiendish cruelty, and he would not pass it over lighly. The boys were remanded tor sentence.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3177, 30 April 1909, Page 3
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166"FIENDISH CRUELTY." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3177, 30 April 1909, Page 3
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