Cruelty to a Dog.
• WHAT A POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION DISCLOSED. In our yesterday's issue we chronicled a case of cruelty to a dog at Ashburton, in which the offender received four months imprisonment. In the course of the trial, Gilchrist, the accused, said the dog in question was dead, but it had died of poison, and certainly not from the effects of the mild punishment he allowed he had administered. In the evening the police held a post mortem examination on the deceased dog, alleged to havo been sent to the Aiden of canines on the wings of a doso of strychnine. Th :• j post mortem showed that not a rib
in the poor beaßt's body was left whole, betokening most brutal punishment. The bloodvessels about the neck were badly congested, showing that the ligature by which Gilchrist secured the animal had been tied in earnest and with an emphasis, while the intestines were, as the police put it, knocked into a jelly. In view of the above facts the punishment the man received will not seem unduly hard.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5611, 6 May 1886, Page 4
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