Show The Murder o of a Horse t They only murdered a horse T- T TTo To 10 some people the story from Brigham City telling of this rime crime by three young means little It carries carnes no shock of f horror It doesn't make some people shudder at the wanton vanton cruelty of the thing the the depravity and cowardice of the act Yet that horse had worked faithfully for the livery stable owner it had been the means whereby he had secured food and clothing for his little ones That horse had willingly gone forth 1 l to labor Jabor for man and its reward was vici vicious u punishment and death Any man who will deliberately kill kil a dumb thing so loyal and faithful as a horse or a dog would just as quickly sl slay ya a fellow human if his coward hea heart did n not t make him shrink from the penalty th that t would follow It is not because his heart is right i f r that lie he doesn't kill his fellow man it is because he is afraid Think it over and decide for yourself the difference between th the moral degree of a crime whereby a man coolly maliciously deliberately ateY beats and lashes a horse and forces it to run until it falls dead elead having no possible motive for hatred toward the animal and a crime wherein he is angered thinks he has been S. S wronged and in the heat of passion and with his reason N anted slays a fellow human Some people very people very many in fact fact are are perfectly satisfied if they themselves are comfortable Their interest extends extends' to rio ito other creature If a neighbor treats an innocent l little child w w- w brutally the they dismiss the subject with the thought Well uVell its it's his hs child not ot mine If a person with witha a d deformed formed mind and one I u must have a deformed and acid depraved mind to mistreat dumb animals beats his hard working working- horse with a log chain because 7 r 7 the e- e poor animal has reached the limit of its strength the cold coldi i blooded person turns aside side his head and refuses to take any l interest in the affair As long as his own hide is is untouched h he has no pity for a less fortun fortunate te creature Some persons are so selfish and so narrow minded that they y I think because God made t them em to walk o on two legs and and- blessed them with a few more privileges than he gave to other animals the the other creatures have no rights whatever Kussel Russel lel Nelson his brother Marinas Marinus and Christian 1 City rented a team from the Glover livery stable Sundad Sunt Sun Sun- t dav dad morning They took th three girls riding and it is declared that they hev heY drove that tea team almost one hundred miles When th they y returned returned re re- stable of the hors horses dead The turned turned to the livery one s dropped tr V r evidences of brutal treatment were so plain phun the stable manager w whipped lipped one of the Nelson boys aS That's probably all the punishment the boys will receive i y will not b be di disgraced graced by their crime their sin will be fory for for- c f n Gotten fatten they will simply be coarsened that much more by the cruelty t- t ru el tY of the thing and the lack of penitence i They only murdered a horse |