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Otago Witness, Issue 3100, 13 August 1913, Page 56

A case presenting some peculiar features caino before Mr K. Page l S.M., at tlio Magistrate’s Court on Monday (writes tlio Whangarei correspondent of the New Zealand Herald). A man named William Conaglr.m was charged with causing the destruction wilfully of a valuable sporting dog, the property of James W. Burdett, an hotelkeeper. From the evidence tendered it appeared that the accused took the do£ to a chemist's shop, and, on representing the animal to be hi« own property, he induced the chemist to administer a fatal dose of prussic acid. The accused pleaded guilty to the charge, but he declined to disclose the motive of his action. Ho was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment without the option of a fine.