Show ro BOYS RESORT R ESO RI fO 10 V V CRUEL TORTURE C VV I M Many ny Children of Wealthy Parents V Guilty Q of Vicious i ious Practices F V VICTIMS I HUMANE THREATENS TO M K V VV VV fI V V i V I Aggravated v ted i cru to Is becoming SQ so frequent among boys s Qt good fan a thor tho are threatening to begin a cru crusade VC sade The sparrow bounty is named by B B J Mann ann humane officer as one one of the apparent causes for malicious de destruction n of life Ife and ugly maiming tf f helpless birds At the same time the humane e has ims come Into contact w th Instances cei of br mal maltreatment maltreatment treatment of V dumb brutes V Th The str strange feature o of the whole at far faIr lies in the fact that most of the V culprits tire re boys between th the ages ages of 8 tend nd 14 ye years rs well dressed and from good homes Equipped with rifles and air guns those these youngster have been in the t ot of killing birds and that pastime becoming too cU II they have begun V to seek excitement for their jaded senses of pleasure b by methods of torture A number of thes instances Were recently brought to the notice of the humane officer er He investigated the thea a cases ses expecting to find poorly clothed rowdies without good home bringinG tip p the malefactors Instead he ran rana a across ross a group or of neatly clothed bo boys s whose parents when he caine to in interview them turned out to be respectable o most of them having means The parents ox ex expressed pressed surprise at what bad been happening h arid and complete Ignorance of actions which had stirred their neigh b until complaints were th the re no result suIt sult VV I Found Torturing Sparrows An instance of this sort came to light In the east enst end Along Twelfth East street between First and ThIrd South Bouth streets the youth of If the neigh Were found amu ing them themselves themselves selves by a highlY scientific species speCie V of i which they had devised Spar rows were their victims They got the i little brown birds generally b by maim malm maiming ing them with wilh rubber slingshots Once captured a 14 bird was doomed to slow death A bIg firecracker was burled buried with Its fuse exposed Over tire the cracker the bird was burled buried with earth all alive The fuse was lighted The ex explosion n sent the fluff fluffy f fy little cluster of feathers well up into the lr It V always fell quivering V that the gather around It and watch Its agori V tes then ithen I there was enough life tb make it worth while bury tt Ft agath oyer a mine similar to the other V V DistrIct Attorney F C lle the Jt n Q of the hu nc of fleer tol t land and the Dra was at I onCe jn In that neighborhood I colonel 1 I s th that t he e intendS to pr prosecute similar offenders if any V are found V I It t Boys arry Fir Firearms arms Th S b b was waH 11 by jo i as an excuse for their nov l 1 of amusement V AIr of which brings up another side sid e to the he story The police d et t about once a mouth has a roundup p of youths who make thi sparrow bounty an for aroun around fire find arms and air guns and shooting g indiscriminately In the residence dis districts go Every so 50 often otten a bo boy goes to t o the hospital with a small leaden bull t lOdged V In his person Sometimes U th e ething thing ends in a funeral In spite of o ef ef f constant watching on the part of o f mounted officers this practice of car carryinG carrying and amid using fire arms within the th e city limits Is indulged In every day according to residents of the outer din dis districts There is i no op on earth wiry h hf V lf f the waIt O t terminated said Mann lIann It i t cannot let responsible parties atten attento d to the work This bounty y the In tIre the hands of boys who go into It for fun and i y develop a desire to kill and a ed d sense of pity which lets them maim without sorrow Cat Cruelly Treated V t torture is i riot not th the only y means of torment d vis d wIth dum things as An Instance nce va as s reported the other da day where anum a nun ber of boys had cut oft of f V the Vt hind legs of oC a and lets tithe th e dumb brute drag herself about on the th e ee bleeding stumps Officers and others othe who have st stud d led such things sa say that this sort of o f thing invariably results Ip Ic blunted mor inor sensibilities al and that the thes In many man y develop murderers At any rate J th thO humanE officer states that I te tends ds to t make arrests and to stO follow follo w I ItIle tIle I With prosecutions in n neasel y I easel of cruelty which arise heO f u V I V V I I |