EXECUTION OF ANIMALS FOR CRIME.
The London " Athenceum.'' gives the following concerning the physical and spiritual penalties which the law formerly visited on condemnation a "bull tdrffiilf gallows for the crime of Imnigs. is"Dy»iio means a singular exaithe eccentricities of ancient at least in France. - the 4th day of June, >io|4 3 pig wal'hanged from a gibbet, near Lata, for devouring. the babe of one Lenfent; a: cowherd.. Again, on The 10th January, 1457, ai sow arid her six sucklings were charged with urard.er and homicide'©if the person - of of Sevi ney, Tj.lien--the ■ •%]!& guilty ana b£.hind feet branch, for the piglings/ Si defatiilrof* proof that ijhgy had assisted jn j the blog^ they were restotfSd'to fion that he should give bail for pearance should further evidence coming- ..to. prove their tfdwieix, mother's crinie._ The declined to become in for j; the condlict of sueh<spsbred alpgals, c which were; forfeited to "parents' cSSH, but to the noble damsel Katerine de Bemault, Lady ox: Y.et again,,, -on the 2ttd investigation of < pig" -'that - Kad®'
IkOled irom' ereqted spot polluted Dy -)> he biocray deed. Even so late as , 1612, a pig 'was convicted 6f having- worried to death, and partially devoured, a! child s fourteen pr fifteen' months old, th^sonof^'mason "residing jurisdiction d£ Laon." ""
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 21, 16 May 1876, Page 2
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211EXECUTION OF ANIMALS FOR CRIME. Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 21, 16 May 1876, Page 2
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