Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-08
RABBITS MAY
Be PROTECTED
CoURSING BROUGHT UNDER THE
BAN OF SOCIETY FOR PRE-
r.. vENTIoN OF CRUELTY.
DR.. BERNHElM SPEAKS
AGAINST THE PRACTICE.
Communication to City Council Re-
questing Cooperation Of City
Police Officers.

At the meeting of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals last
evening DR.. Louis Bernheim created
something of a furore by calling the at
tention of the president and others to
the killing of rabbits for amusement at
the cOurSlng park south of the city every
Sunday.
II think 1t is an outrage" said he, "to
permit such a thing in our midst. There
Is nothing more cruel-nuthing more
outrageous-than coursing. / have al
ways felt like going to the county attor-
ney n making a protest against it. I
think we should endeavor ITO enjoin those
who practice 1T. An exhibition of this
nature ts given every Sunday and
nope that by next Sunday we will have
done something to stop it. Coursing is as
cruel as it can be-"
Adolph Wetzstein asked for informa-
t1on as to the meaning of "coursing' and
the doctor replied: cit is the chasing
and killing Of rabbits by dogs"
We rave already taken the matter
up, said PRESIDENT Stuart, "and have it
under consideration"
There Is in Illinois," said DR.. Bern
helm, IAN anti vivisection law. There it
Is considered cruel to kill animals in the
interest of science and I do not see why
IT is not just as cruel to kill them for
amusement in Montana"
Justice ]. M. Lewis Of Walkerville
made a good suggestion on the cruelty
! proposition in eneral He said that in
the schools children should be taught to
not treat animals cruelty and when they
grew Older they would remember the
lessons.
Another important matter brought M
related to the authority of members OF
the society to arrest persons caught in
the act Of violating the laws which the
society intends to enforce. A liveryman
present said he had often witnessed the
CRUEL fr<pa m anti of ihnrcos ~, v,o~saro -
did not know n the offenders had es-
capped punishment because he did not
know whether he could arrest them with
out making complaint. Attorney Charles
N. Parr enlightened him and other mem
bers OF the body by reading a section of
the penal code governing UGH cases, the
section being as follows:
Section 1888: A private person may
arrest another for a public offense com
mitted or attempted in his presence;
when a person arrested has committed a
felony although not in hts presence;
when a felony has been committed and
he has reasonable cause for believing the
person arrested to nave committed it.
1T us incumbent upon a private citizen,
the same as upon an officer, to arrest an
other for the commission of a crime in
his presence. The arrest must be made
promptly and cannot be made, if for a
misdemeanor, after the affair is over"
AS cruelty to animals is a misdemeanor,
a, person ca,1pht mistreating . hnrse ar
any other animal can be arrested on the
spot by any citizen without a warrant or
other nrocess and landed in ia;l
In regard To incnrnonat the oh a IT,
man annnintad Col = = Ilovd T M
Lewis Fl r Rart1ett Rev a M Whit
man and Adolnh watzstai,, a g a hoard
nf trustees to ta1a tho nronar stons ~
this direction
The Society has n,ena rod the fo1,,u,n.
COMM 1nic which will no n1asonta6
at the meetinp If the citv co,,nci1 this
evening.
"Rutte Mont Ane,rst . 1qM To tho
Hor,orathle Nave and Cttv ro,,nc;, ~
the. r,itv of Rutte-Gant1en,en. Tho sill
ve, Pow County Society fnr the proven
tinn If rr,,aItv tn Animals was orear.
ized at Rntte during tha nast month 1his
society 10 nn the lines of those o1,sa n;za.
tinns on q similar line to hs f1n1n6 IN al,
East, wfhich have accomplished so much