The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-08
HORSES INJURED
Two Arrivals by the S.
G. Wilder Fare Badly.
Badly Cramped in Their Stalls One
OF Them Shot-Capt. Mcneil
Arrested

The American baTkentiIe 3 q. VIII
der. Mcneil master. arrived in port
Saturday morning with cargo Of gen
eral merchandise and five head OF
. fine horses aboard, the latter being con
signed 10 James Macdonald These
were landed at Brewers wharf
Out Of the INJURIES of TWO Of the num-
Der, sustained on the voyage from san
Francisco, has grown a peck of trouble.
The other three were in good condi-
ton and We're taken uptown by the
owner, but in regard 10 the remaining
two. it was found that they were so
I frightfully injured 0y contact with the
sides OF the stalls tbat it was found
necessary for them 70 be removed TO
Dr. Shaw's place OIL King street. Here
they were examined and their injuries
found 10 be so bad that Humane officer
/ Helen Wilder was sent for. She ar
rived at DR.. Shaw's place about l
O'Clock, and after a brief examination,
Itelephoned for Marshal Brown. He
could not be found, and so Deputy
Marshal Hitchcock was sent for. After
a consultation the two officers went
down town together and found -Garshal
Brown at the police station.
Together the three went 20 Dr..
Shaw's and, returning to town, Mar
shall Brown sent an officer aboard The
5. G. Wilder with a penal summons Il =
Captain Mcneil TO appear in the Pc
lie. Court before Judge De La Vergne
this morning.
An examination of the stalls used in
Transporting the two injured horses
from San Francisco to Honolulu was
made by Miss Wilder. She told a re-
porter for the Advertiser ye5te lay
that the stalls were much too small
for the horses" and that the shameful
injuries sustained by the two animals
was due TO no other cause than made
quate space. 1t must have been a mat
ter of constant CALLING and irritation
all the way down from San Francisco.
Why" asked Miss Wilder. were
the other horses not injur ID? Simply
because they were smaller and had adj
eCuate room in the stalls. When I
called at DR.. Shaw's one horse WAS
walking about the yard very slowly,
and as if suffering from great pain.
The other had been put into a sling
and dosed up with morphine to keep
away to some slight degree the awful
suffering the poor beast must have eX-
perienced. This one was shot during
the night. Someone ought to be pun
ished for this piece of cruelty TO ami
mails. and 1 shall do all in my power
TO see that whoever is responsible is
brought to justice. Abuse of a dumb
creature is something that no one
should stand"
Captain Mcneil was seen Sunday
afternoon, and in answer TO a question
the injured horses, answered
by showing the reporter his livestock
contract, a clause of which reads as fol-
lows:
"The said animals are to be put
aboard and taken off said vessel by the
shipper and at his sole expense; and it
is hereby understood and agreed that
the said animals while on board the
said vessel are at his sole risk: and the
vessel or her owners are in no way Ii
able for any damage by accident that
may happen to said animals, however
caused"
Captain Mcneil says that the ami
mails were suffering when put aboard
his vessel that no one was sent down
10 take care of them, that he had very
rough weather coming down and that
he gave the animals all the care he
could.
Just how the matter stands will be
learned in the Police Court this morn
ing when Captain Mcneil will appear
on the charge of cruelty TO animals.