Disgraceful Act. — A correspondent writing to an Auckland paper says—“On the afternoon of Sunday last I was taking a walk .with my two little boys, around Mount Eden gaol, when at the’ upper end of the wall, near the mountain, on a little green rnound, one of the boys cried out to me, saying, “Oh, father, father, see the dog is eating a nan’s leg.” I cried out, “ Where?” when the boy pointed to this little green mound. I looked, and to my Horror and surprise I saw the dog tearing the leg of a full grown man. I drove the * dog away, and put the leg back again into the little hole, about five inches deep and a, about two feet long, with a little green W sod over it. The leg appeared to be recently amputated, a little below the knee. I made inquiries from some of the people living about that neighbourhood, and I learned that some unfortunate prisoner, a few days before, got his leg broken while working in the quarry. Dr Philson had to amputate the leg.
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Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 49, 29 September 1875, Page 3
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