Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-01-16
DID OFFICER HUNTER
STARVE The
HORSE?
HUMANE SOCIETY ASKS
POINTED QUESTION
Animal Confined III City Pound
Succumbs Under Suspicious
Circumstances Dog Catcher
Causes Split in City Admins
tration,

DID G. ". Hunter. Mayor Testers
efficient dog catcher and poundnas-
ter. deliberately fail to feed a horse
confined in the city pound, nntil the
died ot starvation
This is the question which members
Of the New Mexico Humane society
are asking. 1t is the question which
a lot of other people are asking who
do not belong To The society. but who
believe that cruelty To animals is .
iittie worse than most other forms Of
cruelty
Yesterday afternoon those who car
ed to see, we're treated to the spec
ta-le OF a dead horse being carted
to The pone yard from b city
pound on North First street.. The horse
was dead There was no doubt Of
that II was also very thin, its bones
protrudina.
The animal was taken up near the
city limits, early in the week by Har-
old Carlson, the lad Who was assistant
dog catcher under Hunter until the
latter refused to pay the boy his
resulting in an Immediate Sow
crancc OF business relations,
When the pony vas taken UP II
was VA fair condition No one I'M
duircd for 1t 1t remained in the
pound. Yesterday it died. The gem
cthl belief is that IL was not ted while
II was In the c3ty's custody, or IL IL
was, that not enough feed WAS given
to sustain HE.
II IL should b. shown that Hunters
negligence or inhutnanity WAS respon-
sible FOR the horses death, an appeal
viii be made 20 Mayor Lester to do
something, and Il Is not unlikely hat
the district attorney viii be asked to
institute an investigation,
orousiy pursuing Hunter. on the trail
administration splits on Hunter.
NJ WAS understood on the street
yesterday that Mayor Lester desired
to remove Hunter and put some u
i'm his place against whom there would
not hc such constant protest but that
he encountered opposition in his oti-
cial family in the person of Chief Of
Police MeAiillin Who wanted Hunter
retained and insisted that he bc not
removed. Hunter IL still on the job
Still Nfter His Ten Dollars.
In the meantime young Harold
Carlson, p%cnniloss but hopeful, Ia Wig
o%rnusly persuiug Hunter, on the tran
OF tht ten dollars wages which Hun
tor owes him. Ike made strenuous
efforts o.. set the money yesterday
hut without amy 9ppreclahle effect
Hunter Is dinicult 90 separate from
ten dollars The chicf OF police also
brought pressure Go bear on Hunter to
pay the lad the money but az last re-
ports not even the influence of the
head of the Albuquerque police force
had suiIiced 60 move the dog catcher
To- come through.
Young Carlson. although broke,
Jared pretty wen Yesterday, William
Mcintosh Was the first To- come to his
rescue. MI. Mcintosh bought him a
pair of trousers. OF which he was IN
sore need. having had his only pair
somewhat laccrated hy the strenuous
work of snuring dogs FOR Hunter.
i,nss Merritt assistant cashier of the
Bank of Commerce gave him "a pair of
tan shoes, Ike Graham OF Graham
brothers staked him TO three square
meals and altogether the lad Jared
very well SIC d. still patiently waiting
iei Hunter q" dig up the ten. however.
and expects tu stay With the Job.