CRUELTY TO EELS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 114, 15 May 1926, Page 38

CRUELTY TO EELS.

■ H ' Eunice Brooker, a fish saleswoman, of jj Bedford Street, Walworth, London, pleaded g-allty at Lambeth to causing 10 eels un- 3 necessary sulterini; by unreasonably dlsem- * towelling them when alive. » ' ffllr. Folhill. for the Itoyal Society for L the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said $ •Brooker had a stall iv the market place at [East Street, Walworh, where she sold fresh J .■water eels. An inspector of the society made a purchase, and I'.rooker then diaem- 'J io-wclled the first rendering 5 them insensible l>y hitting them on the Jiead or by cutting their heads off. . J 1 Jli". A. PeSirse, veterinary surgeon, snid * jfeels were highly organised and undoubtedly f (rafTered by beins treated in this way. j ■ CBrooker said she usually cut their heads !j |>ffi. On this occasion she was worried, and „ fere mlgut have missed one or two, but not 1 Intentionally. • • Sir. Rooth. 'Pu-t yourself in the place of f i Chese poor eels. You say you only missed | one or tiro. Don - t you think the one or £j two suffered the tortures of the damned? b