The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-07-16 00:00:00

to sand you In the fireAter—.lMr. Arden: 111 r.
Trrlintrerants an ex prnsios a year opinion, sir, to help
him in • civil mutton —The Mayor: The only thing we
can In, Mr. Barker, I. to express our contempt for such
Veiny. end to reeimmed you to consult your legal
adviser —Mr. flea info leiter is as follows Clearmount,
Wernouth, lily 6 1875 84,—1 beg to acknowledge
receipt of • ciocanunicauan from you, purporting to be an
answer to letters from myself. Having no knowledge of
any such letters. 1 only surmise you hare been made the
Attain of • senseless hoax. As • Clubman of nearly 10
years' standing, including nanthership of four in London
(one of which, the St Stephen's, by the war, colt to. •
end I ParliamentJ, and as the director and chairman of
committees of soma of them. I &In of n 00,041%
acquainted with the stn. customarily etinitiored in
to an notation to membership It w vs ms Peet
Swan to unite with your committee giving such
reward as may lead to the detection and exposure of the
toner of the letters you mention. I can only conclude
with an expression of my utter disgust fee the
be he who he may, said the Bastement that r=trat to
erne
, myself full liberty of action in the matter, and the rid*.
should I see It. to Publish this carreapondenea-1 am,
Sir, your obedient servant, W. Jarvis Ha/ker.—The Hon,
Sec. Weymouth and County Club.-
' Cum PACKING Or Lres P 001.21111% Pena of
' Dorchester, was summoned for oansing certain poultry to
be cionvend from Dorchester to Weymouth fa • cruel
fne.eer-- Mr. Hfteerfl Wowed for the Society for the
Prevention of Quell, to Animals and said this was one
of the wont cans be bad beard of for many • day. The
levtltrY were conveyed in a bean wherein the space
allowed for each bird wee only stout an inch and s half,
so that in the short transit from Dorchester several died.
It appear...l there had been various nas in which parties,
for the mike of ebonies's, bad thought proper to put to
half ait many animal. again as wire proper. The Ad of
Fuller...et had *tinted certain hewn fine., so that the
nfiroder timid be Mimi in the nee of twenty birds, some
LIM or Off or the Bench mould nod the defendant to
prison without in °piton of • tine. The society did not
wish for erten re minishontot ; but they hoped the
' Bench eould enforce nution. In the news of
that society be thanked the pallor, and 01 gho bad taken
I Part in brin-Ing the es a before then, —P C. Hanford. on
the atria'sl of the 1".45 tn. from Dorchester, on July Sod,
Iwas on the platform, end saw the b•mper produoid taken
,Ott of the railway truck. It contained • lot of poultry,
sad be found about nine duck.. and about fortyione hark,
; making close on fifty head One was dead, and four or
i five were in • dying state, they mold not stand. They
Wire so crowded that some Os., treading down the
others, and the foals were gasping for air. It wee cruel
to pack them se thick. At 0000 he borrowed a basket,
took thirty out, and nate ot them he held up so that
they could gat air. On Saturday last he tarred Force will
a summons, when he said be pat the poultry In himself
and had done it in • burry. Reported the case to the
Superintendent of Police, and ty his orders fetched the
basket. The poultry was consigned to Hr. Andrews, and
Gone were fifty bead there ; three persons taunted them.
—Defendant said there were only five duck' sad twenty
fink—Abel Stoneham, porter of the Great Western
Railway at I:Swebeirter, warn on duty there on the Sod
July, and saw drfendant with a hamper. A lot of birds
was pit is by defend at, and sent to Weymouth, consigned
to • man nosed Andrews, and they arrived in shout 26
misune.-43eorge Winn, parcel porterattbestatlon, yea
, on don at the arrival of 'he train, and saw P.C. Hthaford,
; St this time witness Ind token out the beekat of poultry,
and Han.ford leskril and add be should like to roust
therm—Bub of them &vaned the state they were in,
name( for Irriate, and one dead. Hanand counted
then rwic., and made sir.' there were fir ty head, and wit
, nes lent lint • lamket to put thirty in. Considered it a
/Nat art of cruelty in por 60 many in the haat* —George
Oak neat, envoi in th ire. of the train received the hamper
frill of ponitry from delis dint, and drew his attention to
th great quantity .4 ptulin in the bane ; but Force
r. Ord the lairds hadn't to on far. By 111 r Hopkins: Toe
hemp-, wee fairly stowed on the way down, nothing we.
put.. it to prevent an birds getting air, and witness had
tore' siring. and let the fowl, into the eta.
Mr. Drina * ap•s, exemined the basket, anti also •
dead Nat sa ~ Hick on Tuesday evening last. It was
diseolour..l, very black, and in • state of decomposition,
sorb is a fowl ought not to he that was alive at 10 o'clock ;
In the morning. The lensth of the basket was 3 feet S'
nen% tenth Mt. depth 11 Inches This would only
allow under on. inch and half standing room for each
bird, Of they noun lie 0120 scant the other.
Ho considered it an act of gross cruelty to put
so many birds in MI small a space—Mr. Howard had
two more wingers : but as defendant admitted the
charge, and threw binialf on the mercy of the Court, be
would not cell then—ln defence, Force said be had just
time to mach the train, and none to delay. He had no
other beak t, and they out the birds in as quickly as they
could, and did not count them. —The Mayor: Sometime
ego we had • sirodar can Was it Force then I—Eopt
Vickery mid —No ; it was • man from Bridport —Mr.
H iward remarked the expanse would be about 4:3„ and
the Satiety had to pay his lee—The Mayor could not help
thinking tbl. was • nee of gross, negligent cruelty.
Heaths been for Many years accustomed to the business
Two. knew 1,.• mink lovas would go into the basket
The Bench accepted what be said about baring no other
haiket, and believed he did it hastily, and without due
cntiairieration to what would he the result, so they were
disposed to treat it leniently, the object being not so much
to puniah the cruelty is to prevent it in future. Dtfendant
' moat pay the expenna, and • fine of a 2., or suffer two
months in gist—The total was shout .1.517 y.