RABBIT TORN TO PIECES WHILE ALIVE
AT WIMBLEDON Police Court reredently, Thomas Tapsell, 34, salesman, of North Road, Wimbledon, and William Marshall 24, labourer, of South Road, Wimbledon, were charged with cruelly illtreating a rabbit. They were fined £lO each, in default one month’s imprisonment. • Constable Green said that he saw Tapsell leading three greyhounds and Marshall with a sack in which something moved. At an open space the dogs were released, and a rabbit taken from the sack was held over the dogs by Marshall, tantalising them. One of the dogs succeeded in seizing the rabbit, which was torn to pieces by all three. Only the head and fore-quarters were found afterward. When spoken to Tapsell said, “We were just having a bit of rabbit coursing.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1935, Page 16 (Supplement)
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