Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-10
HORSE SAUSAGE.

In the Court Of Special Sessions in
New York on Wednesday David Lin
aire, who said he was peddler, living
at No. 2S2 Broome street, was convicted
of cruelty to animals, and, besides re.
caiving the unusual sentence of sixty
days imprisonment on the island, was
also fined 5000.
The charge was prosecuted by Super.
iutendent Haukinson, of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
The evidence he produced showed first
that on March Mr.. Evans, an officer
Of !he society, sew Linaire leading an
old, decrepit horse st Market and
Water streets. The horse lifted its
right hind foot in such a way rs TO in.
dicate that it suffered intense pain.
The officer stopped Liniare and ex-
smiued the horse, and found that its
foot had all but been torn from its sock
ct aud was hanging to the skin by 4
few tend0ns. The horse, in addition,
was almost starved The officer placed
Liuaire under arrest and the horse was
shot
a man named Burke, living st No.
1876 Water street, testified that Linaire
had offered to sell MIN the horse for
80 cents, but that he had refused to
buy it, During Burke's examination it
vas developed that these men were
called 'skinners," engaged in the bust
oess of buying up old horses for their
hides, and that the price usually paid
was S3 horse; but the aUimel led by
LiQaire had so many holes worn
through It's hide, as result Of i'll treat
meut, that its hide possessed no value
for the "skinners."
Superintendent HaDkinson told the
court that, in his long experience, be
had never seen s. horse in such terri
Bile condition. He said ne knew for
fact that slaughter house was 10 op-
GRAFTON jE New Jersey, where horses
were bought at prices ranging from
half dollar to dollar and hslf, and
that their meat was made into sausages
and sold ss such to residents of the
poorer districts ofthis city.
I.inaire admitted that he had tried to
sell the horses to a skinner" but did
not explain where be obtained posses
sion Of the animal.
Addressing superintendent Hankin.
son, Presiding Judge HolbrOok said:
What you tell the court is news
that we believed impossible In this civ
ilized community. In the case at bar
we think it is one of the nest aggrs-
waited cases OF inhuman cruelty, if not
the most aggravated tket has ever been
brought before US, and in this case we
propose to intlict substantial punish
nent that will doubtless have deter
rent effect upon others who might 9TH
erwise do the same thing. The sen
tence Of the court is that the prisoner
pay fine of 5000 and be committed to
the penitentiary for 60 days.
Linaire was unable to pay the tine,
and in consequence will have to spend
2G0 days in the penitentiary.
After the prisoner had been taken
away Superintendent Hankinson said :;
"This man is only one of mum
Der who make q business Of picking
up old and decrepid horses, which
they sell to the proprietors Of Ger
tGln slaughter HuueeS Au AN9H "eASNS
and on Long Island who kill them,
lust as cattle are killed, and prepare
their flesh for human consumption. 1t
is picked and packed in barrels or
made into sausages. No part of the
horse is allowed to 60 to waste. The
slaughter house men claim that the
meat thus prepsred is intended for ex-
port, but that claim is absurd. 1t is
sold to poor and unsuspecting people in
tenement districts.
"And the worst of it is that there ls
no law to prevent the slaughter OF
horses for human consumption. There
ought to be such law, for it is clear
that healthy horse would be too valu-
able to be killed for food. 1t is only
diseased or old horses that are 50
slaughtered. Hundreds OF horses are
sold in this city every year for from
twenty-five cents to 81 each to the
slaughter house people. Last year l
broke up two such slaughter houses on
Long Island, and now their proprie-
tors seem to have gone over to New
Jersey and resumed their revoltiDg
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