DEMPSEY THE HORSE TORTURER

NZ Truth, Issue 1081, 19 August 1926, Page 8

DEMPSEY THE HORSE TORTURER

1 (From ''Truth's" Special Christchuroh Representative.) | £^ AD Frederick Dempsey lived m the bad old days 1 of the Spanish Inquisition doubtless he could have , | earned fame as a torturer. • | Although he lives m the enlightened twen- | tieth century he has managed to display his gifts § 1 m this direction— and at. the expense of* a dumb animal , • | 1 which he cruelly tortured m a main thoroughfare of Christ- | 1 ■ church early one morning. " 1 1 He was driving a horse and cart to Addington, The | 1 outfit janlbed m the street channelling and nothing would | 1 sjiift the horse. , ' | 1 Dempsey, m the kindness of his heart, laid into the poor 1 | brute, first of all with a shovel, and, when this failed, he | I played his trump card, Lighting a bundle of paper, he held | 1 the burning mass under the horse, which, m agony and tier- | | ror, finally got on the move, suffering great pain. | I *'It is one of the very worst cases of to animals | I I have come across," said the magistrate,an fining I)empsey | 1 £2. "But for your family you would have gone to gaol." |