GAOL FOR CRUELTY TO DOG
For causing unnecessary suffering to a dog by striking it with an axe, John Coe, of Slough, Buckinghamshire, was sent to prison for two months by the Slough magistrates recently. He was ordered to pay £4 8s 6d costs and was disqualified fiom keeping a dog for two years. A veterinary surgeon gave evidence that 12 blows must have been aimed at the dog before its head was cut off. The chairman, in passing sentence, declared that it was one of the wcist cases the Bench hud ever had.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 145, 20 June 1936, Page 2
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94GAOL FOR CRUELTY TO DOG Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 145, 20 June 1936, Page 2
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