Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06

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receives d complaint from some one in
Nashville that his pet dog IS missing,
but that repeatedly he has started inves-
LEGATION only to have the dog returned
to the owner in much the same manner
that Judge Walter Pritchards missing
/ Airedale Jerry" was returned to him
in this city. The chief says he has
searched the premises occupied by STAN
I ley Kemp, father of the youthful dog
/ snatcher, but has never found stolen dogs
/ there.
| Carroll Downey, city fireman at Rush
Vile, is authority for the statement that
the truck in which dogs are transported
to the medical college was in Rushyille
about two weeks ago. He said the truck
was specially fitted for the transportation
Of dogs.
! Rushville dog owners are considerably
aroused by the dog traffic which the
medical college has Induced Judge
Sparks says that number of citizens
have counselled with him as to how their
/ pets could be protected and that in
number Of cases owners have placed a
valuation on their dogs for taxation as
personal property in order to be able to
make a larceny charge against any one
who takes them.
Kemp has a corn crib at his place
where dogs which ne snatches are con
( fined while they await the arrival of the
/ truck from the college. The care given
the dogs while confined In this crib is
negligible and it is easily understood
/ why the animals are in such condition
that they do not appear to be anybodys
pets by the time they are received at
/ the death kennels" in indianapolis.
| a prominent merchant of Rushville re-
Gently lost a valuable dog and having
heard of Kemp as a dog snatcher, visited
| the Kemp home on search for It, He
did not find the dog there, but shortly
I afterward it was found In another part
of the town. where it had been confined.
SS5 FOR ONE
/ DAYS SNATCHING.
/ Statements differ as to the number Of
dogs that the boy has collected for the
medical college.
The Times has a letter from one Rush
vile citizen, who says that Kemp boast
ed to him of having been paid $50 one
day for collecting dogs Tor the college
Mrs..Kemp says that the total number
Of dogs collected by her son was not
more than twenty.
Beyond admitting that he had gathered
up eight dogs from Milroy young Kemp
refused to make any statements relative
to the number he had procured or to
the places from which they were pro-
cured.
Young Kemp had evidently been thor
| oughly posted as to the procedure to
follow in event he was questioned con-
/ corning his dog snatching. He launched
into a long discourse concerning the
scientific" uses to which the dogs were
/ placed when received by the college, re-
/ fused to give any names Of persons with
whom he deaIed and insisted that he
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/ college in pad"
His mother said that Kemp was in
duced to undertake the collection Of
dogs while he was a patient at the Long
Hospital in Indianapolis last fall
| The Indiana law concerning the trans
| portation of animals reads as follows:
| Every owner, pOssessor or person hav-
/ ing the charge or custody Of any animal
who cruelty drives or works the same or
who neglects or abandons such animals
when no longer fit Tor labor, or who shall
abandon any manned. sick, infrm or dis
abled animal to die in any public place,
or who shall carry or cause to be car
ried upon any vehicle, or otherwise, any
living animal, fowl or bird, having the
feet or legs tied together, or in any other
lcruel and inhuman manner, or who shall
carry or cause to be carried any- live
animal upon any vehicle, or otherwise,
!
crates or cages in which such animals
may stand or lie down during Transport
tatiOn, or whilst awaiting slaughter,
shall, on conviction. be fined not more
than 5000, to which may be added i'm
prisonment in the county jail for any
period not exceeding sixty days"
| SOCIETY LEAVES 1T
ALL TO DR. PFAFFLIN.
At a regular meeting of the Indian
apolis Humane Society held last night,
a motion to appoint a special commit
/ tee to investigate the conditions at the
medical school was voted down and the
investigation was left to the executive
committee. headed by DIR. c. A Pfafflin,
"chef of the petit police force" who was
/ present and informed the society that all
which had been said about the medical
college was lies"
Dr. Pfafflin is a specialist who depends
/ for his medical practice the good will
/ Of physicians and surgeons who send
/ him patients. Any steps that he might
take toward interfering with the prac
| tees of the medical school could be ex-
pecsed to ALLEVIATE the good will' of the
physicians who approve Of the college
treatment Of dogs and thereby curtail
his business.
/ Under his direction complaints made
against the college more than a year ago
were promptly smothered and since the
| latest complaints have been made against
the college DR.. Pfafflin has been indus
| triously engaged in trying to discred.t
all persons taking part in the investiga-
/ ton. u
Among others active in the humane
society affairs who are opposed to any
effort to stop the practices of the medi-
| cal college is W. s. Frye, the head of n
/ trucking company in Indianapolis. which
has been persistently fighting all efforts
/ to license trucks and against whose prac-
/ tice of operating trucks without license
/ Identification the police of indianapolis
have complained publicly.
| 1t is understood the executive com
mittee of the humane society expects
to hear from the college soon and in
| the meanwhile, humane officers, directed
| by DR.. Pfafflin, are under Instructions
to get all evidence possible to show that
| the medical college is not in any way
| infracting the laws OF the State In its
treatment of the dogs procured for it
By the, Juvenile delinquent at Iiushviile
: and others.