The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-01-03
LAW TO Be ENFORCED
PROMPT RESCUE OF CRUELTY
TREATED BEASTS.
Miss Wilder viii No Longer Extend
Clemency to Misdoers Simply to
Convenience Business.

The law against cruelty to animals
is to be enforced hereafter without
the forbearance and regard for misdo-
er's convenience that has been shown
in the past. For instance, in the case
of tram car animals with ugly and tor
turing sores on shoulders or back,
when these have been found by Miss
Wilder she has allowed them to con-
tinue in harness to the nearest end of
the line. This has been done so as
not to inconvenience the public or the
tram car company. Miss Wilder
says now that the tram car company
has shown such a disposition to ig-
more the law, that this clemency will
not be shown any longer. Horses or
mules that are found being cruelty
used will be rescued at the time and
place they are found. She says she is
tired of becoming technically parti-
ceps criminis to accommodate the
business convenience of people who
take advantage of it to violate the law
all the more.
In the work of preventing cruelty to
animals, Miss Wilder is going to ask
the government to provide new and
more suitable pound. Not that she is
poundmaster, she isn't, and doesn't
want to be, though lots of people
seem to think she is and call her up
by telephone when they see stray ami
mails.
Everybody is not precisely informed
as to the law on the subject of cruel
ty to animals, though Miss Wilder is
rapidly informing a good number of
individuals. In this work she has the
cordial support of the marshal, al
though she neither receives pay nor
even the expense she is put to in the
work She does it solely from her
love of animals.
The law on the subject is clear and
explicit, and the wayfaring man, if
he will only read it, need not err
therein. Here it is for him to read.
Penal Laws, 1897; Cruelty to Ami
mails.
| Section 203. If any person shall
over-drive, overload, torture, torment,
deprive of necessary sustenance. or
cruelty beat or needlessly mutilate or
kill, or cause or procure to be over
driven, overloaded. tortured, torment
ed or deprived of necessary susie
nance or to be cruelty beaten, or need
lessly mutilated or killed, as aforesaid,
any living creature, every such Often
der SHALL for every such offense, be
guilty of misdemeanor.
Section 205. Any poundmaster who
shall receive into his pound any crea-
ture, shall supply the same, during
such confinement. sufficient quantity
of good wholesome food and water,
and in default thereof shall, upon con-
viction, be adjudged guilty of a misde-
meanor.
Section 206. If any person shall car
ry or cause to be carried in or upon
any vehicle or other conveyance, any
creature, in a cruel or inhuman man
ner, he shall be guilty of misdemea-
nor
Section 2O7. Every person who shall
willfully set on foot, or instigate, or
move to, carry on, or promote, or en-
gage in, or do any act towards the fur
therance of any act of cruelty to ami
mails shall be guilty of misdemea-
nor.
Section 2O9. The agent of any socie-
ty which shall be formed or incorpo-
rated for the prevention of cruelty tC
animals, upon being appointed there
to, by the president of such society
in any District in this Republic, may
within such districts make arrests and
bring before any District Magistrate
thereof offenders found violating the
provisions of this Act, to be dealt with
according to law.
Section 21O. Any officer, agent OF
member of such society may lawfully
interfere to prevent the preparation
of any act or cruelty upon any animal
in his presence. Any person VINO
shall interfere with or obstruct any
such officer, agent or member in the
discharge of his duty shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor.
Section PA Any person convicted
under the provisions of this Act shal
forfeit and pay any sum not exceed
ing twenty dollars or be imprisoned
with or without hard labor not eX
ceeding one month or be punished by
both such fine and Imprisonment.