DOG ILL TREATED
DASTARDLY ACT BY MAN.
DUNEDIN, January 28,
At the police court David John Clark was lined six pounds and costs in default fourteen days, for cruelty and ill-treating a dog. Counsel said that the accused had tied a collie dog on. a chain about six feet long. At Wylies crossing ho attached ib tq his motor cycle and drove fe Mosgiel, As the dog could not keep up with the speed of the motor the pads were torn, off his fore feet when it reached Mosgiel, and subsequently died. The animal must have been tossed about badly in trying to get on its feet, as Its soles were actually torn off.
The Magistrate in inflicting a fine, said that it was only after considerable hesitation, that ho did not send accused to gaol. The only lit punishment was for tho accused to he <1 lagged behind a motor cycle fey a few miles .i
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 27, 29 January 1929, Page 7
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