| Show Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK April hOTlme society for the prevention of cruelty to animals has not been pleased by the rebuffs its attempts to punist blueblooded offenders in Queens county have unfortunately met with A year or so ago az attempt was made to punish Ed D Morgan ol Hempatead for alleged cruelty in docking bit horses The case resulted in a complete rout < for the society Later rabbit coursing bj August Belmont jr and others in the vicinity 01 Hempstead was pronounced an exhibition Of ra fined cruelty and an attempt was made punist someone but failure again resulted and cours lag went on just the same Now it appears that the abbreviated appendages S append-ages of the polo ponies atCedarhurst have again attracted the attention of these humanitarians and arrests were made of stable men and other S who had docked the ponies Yesterday threi prisoners were arraigned before Squire Hew bit at Woodsburg The accused men pleaded guilty and in extenuation pleaded ignorance ol the laws Counsel for the people made a long argument showing the terrible nature of the offense committed com-mitted and the awful cruelty inflicted upon tnt animals and asked that the prisoners be both imprisoned and fined The prisoners were fined and the man who wielded the cleaver adclltloi was sentenced to twenty days Imprisonment A warrant was also issued for the arrest of the president of the Cedarhurst club |
