A Brutal Act.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 227, 28 August 1883, Page 3

A Brutal Act.

A Wairarapa paper calls the attention of the authorities to, the horrible mnoner m which a, dog was done to death a few days ago on the train between Kaitdke bud the Upper Hutt. A passenger having a dog with him joined the train at Kaitoke. The guard , told him that he must book the do^ have it put m the dog-box. The man would not do this. While the' attention of the guard was called to something else, the man got a piece of rope, and creeping under the . gnard s van, tied the dog tp some of the ironworjk of the carriage— the rope being attached, to the dog's .collar,, and giving him room to move about. The train Btarted^ ; and.;ji); once there were heard howls of agony j .but nobody could make out where they .came from, as the man had not been seen to tie the dos; under the van. At the Upper Hutt a search was. made, to ascertain the cause of the howling, and there was found attached to the under pa^t of the guard's 'van a piece' of rope, a dog collar, and some part of the mangled remains of a, dog, squeezed , Into a mass of hair, pulp,' and blood;. ' The poor dog tried ,to keep up with the train while it was at speed, but-being tied up, it was (knocked m- and out of .culverts and I against bridges till he was battered I into a shapeless mass.