Show A countess who keeps eighteen calv oats and nine doge dogs from froin the london standard 1 at hammersmith police court on saturday july 14 the countess de la a torre residing in pembroke square kensington was summoned by mr J C harding clerk of the kensington vestry for keeping a nul number aber of cata cats and dogs in lier her dwelling rooms so as to bo be a it nuisance thomas abbott an inspector of nuisances said that in consequence of the abominable stench arising from the house where the defendant occupied four rooms he inspected them antho on the ath bast and found in three of them eighteen cats and nine do doga which were being kept in the most offensive manner the 1 he a animals n emals were re running about the stairs and rooms but confined to the house he ile served the countess with a note to discontinue keeping the cats and dogs logs but sho had bad p paid aid no attention to it he ile went there again amin q on F friday and found und the nuisance still existing there being bei g twelve cats eats in the rooms 11 ho asked the magistrate to make an order to abate the nuisance and also to grant a prohibitory hibi tory order in answer to questions the inspector eaid said the landlady of the house had bad not raised any 0 objection hut but the neighbors had complained of the stench the defendant said she had six little kittens which the inspector called cats mary alary odonnell a servant in the house eaid said it was not fit for any person to live there she counted twelve cats in the house that day the defendant in answer to the charge said she was a member berof of the royal society for the prevention of cruelty to animals and she took care of the cats which were left by people why went away to prevent them from being starved mr air shell said she must get rid ot the animals as they were dangerous to the health tile defendant replied that she had promised mr harding and dr budfield Lud field the medical officer of health lIc alth not to keep ep more than her own four or five cats and two dogs and when she gave her word she always kept it mr ahll explained to her that she wea wes liable to a penalty peli alty of twenty shillings for each day lay she kept the animals there an ali order was granted grinte dand and the countess mulcted mulched fou four r shillings costs |