The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 20, 1910 Page: 9 of 10
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Footprints Followed in Srtow for Needle Inserted Back of Eye De-
Over Twelve Miles.
stroys Optic Nerve.
Farmer Overtakes Bear Aft?r Long
Chase, and Now Paita of Five of
Them, Worth at Leaet $100,
Hang on 8ide of Hie Barn.
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Laborer Prosecuted in London Police
Court by Society for Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals for
Operating on Chaffinchoa.
Crosbytdn, Texas
Willlamsport, Pa.—The first Novem-
ber tracking snow brought grief to a
polony of thieving bears In the Brobst
mountain district west of Trout-run?
Frank Kinley, the loser of five sheep
during the fall months, and one of the
T Rjen who.wants protection of the law
removed from the bear tribe, sp that
farmers can wreak vengeance upon
the overgrown pests whenever they
set eyes on them, is fit least $100 bet-
ter off than he was the day before, the
unseasonable snow fell, for he has the
hides of five bearB hanging up against
the end of his barn to dry, these pelts
■ representing the jackets of the ani-
mals which he feels sure are the ones
that raided his place and killed his
sheep.
Kinley, for three days before the
snowfall, had been picking apples,
hauling them to the cider mill and
drawing the barrels of cider back home
again. He wanted two barrels of the
cider to cure for winter, and these he
roiled onto the ground next the smok-
house, but within two rods of the back
part of the house. The next morning
one of these barrels of cider had been
rolled down the hill and one through
the fence, the speed of the barrel evi-
dently being such as to break down
_ the rails.
• There w.^a^j i den ce -qjL. bears . Ir, t £p
soft earth of the road, for there was a
perfect network of tracks, though the
creatures had been unable to get the
bung of the barrel open*; hence the
contents were safer Hut Kinley vowed
he would catch the thief, so he set a
steel trap elope to the barrel and per-
mitted the latter to remain in t'he road.
Hut, unknown to Kinley, while he slept
soundly that night, snow began to
fall, and though the bears had re-
turned, they neither got into the trap
itor did they get the barrel open.
The next morning in the inch or
more of snow Kinley had a glorious
opportunity to track the animals. .He
first thought the tracks were only
those of two old bears and a pair of
cubs. He and his two hoys began the
chase soon after daybreak, but it
was almost noon before they came to
the lair of the bears. They had
trarflped over 12 miles.
Once they came to where the bears
had lain in a laurel thicket, but, as
though learning that they were being
pursued, they had resumed their
"hike," this time bearing off as though
intending to make a circle of their
day's journey. -Upon discovering this
fact, Kinley himself started in a direc-
tion that would take him to a point
cross-tracking the animals, If they kept
their circle travel.
Once On the brow of a ridge where
he calculated the blasts would pass,
, he hid himt-'elf behind a rock and wait-
ed. He had been there hardly half
an hour when he heard a succession
of grunts, and, squinting from his
rover, he beheld an old bear and two
cubs not a rod away from him, and
heading right toward him. He cut
loose with his rifle, and while he only
wounded the old bear, he succeeded in
making a ten-strike on the cubs, and
each of these tumbled in his tracks,
in hardly a minute after the shoot-
ing a third cub put in an appearance,
and a shot fixed it.
. Then Kinley concluded that Ahe'
other old bear was not far off and
started on a run down the trail ex-
pecting to overtake it, but a shot from
the direction in WWch he knew his
boys must be indicated to him that
the old bear must have cross-coun-
tered and was heading for the laurel
thicket again. Two more shots were
fired by the boys sftop affer, and he
heard one of the boys calling: 'There's
another."
Then'he rightly concluded that the
bear which he had wounded must also
be making for the cover of the laurels,
and he ran at top speed in the direc-
tion from which he had heard the
shots. It was lucky he did, for he
found ofie of the boys cornered in a
ledge of rock,v having permitted his
gun to slip from his grasp when he
scrambled up to get a view of the sur-
rounding country, and the wounded
bear—Svhich proved to be the moth-
er—in dangerous proximity to him,
though evidently badly hurt and fast
becoming weijk. Had she reached the
unprotected youth, however, she would
yet have done bad work. Kinley
killed her with one bullet. The other
son had killed the male parent. Then
they gathered up their game—one of-
the biggest bags ever brought In in
this section of the state. •
I London.—How birdB are cruelly
blinded with needles to order to make
them sing better was told at the Lam-
beth police court.
Extraordinary revelations were
made regarding the practice, and as
a result a laborer named Frederick
Collins of Sultan street, Camberwell,
was sentenced to three months' hard
laUor—the extreme penalty under the
wild birds In captivity act.
CollhiB, who gave his age as 56, ap-
peared before A. A. Hopkins charged
with ill treating two chaffinches by
blinding Ihern, between October 1 and
15.
In prosecuting on behalf of the R.
S. P. C. A.. S. G. Polhill said that a
practice existed am,ong some men of
catching wild birds and blinding them,
the reason being that'the birds, thus
treated were supposed to be better
songsters.
Owing to the secrecy observed by
these men, it was difficult for the so-
ciety to gain admission to a room
where the bird6happened to be. It
was onlylately that they had succeed-
in doing so.
Great skill, said Mr. Polhill, was
shown by the men engaged in this
cruel practice of blinding birds, be-
cause they did ngt wish to burst the
eyeballs. A needle is inserted in
puch a way as to destroy the optic
nerve. —
After a while the wound healed up
And the birds, Wbldirharif of course,
suffered intense pain in the operation,
adapted themselves to their sightless
condition In a wonderlul way.
They found their way about the
cages in the most natural way, and
thje_ordinary observer would be unable
to say that there was anything the
matter with them.
Inspector Wilmot of the It. S. P. C.
A. des-cribed how he was introduced
to Collins in Walworth on Sunday, Oc-
tober 17. The conversation turned on
birds, and Collins said he understood
that Wilmot wanted some.
"I've got two ready for you," said
Collins, "and you can have them if
you wait until I have sold three lin-
nets."
The inspector, who was in pfaln
clothes, accompanied Collins to his
house in Sultan street, Camberwell,
and was taken upstairs to an apart-
ment practically full of birds of the
chaffinch kind.
"After showing me several chaf-
finches, all of which were blinded,"
said Inspector Wilmot, "he showed
me the two which form the subject of
the charge. One, he said, he had
caught at Croydon, and the other just
outside Orpington. 'I put 'em through
it—right out.,' said Collins.
"What do you mean by 'right
out'?" asked the inspector.
"Minding," was Collins' reply, "but
it Is a dangerous word to use. If I
was given away it would mean three
months. I _played the game on 'em
last Friday week. This one (pointing
to the Croydon bird), has just got
over it.
Collins admitted to the inspector
that he had blinded the birds himself.
"I have been at the game 20 years,"
he said. —
> "I tested the two birds," continued
the inspector in his evidence, "by
passing "my hand in front ofr4hem.
Neither of thefti moved, and both were
undoubtedly bjlnd. I noticed that
there were at least eight other chaf-
finches, also blind, hanging In cages
in the room. 1 bought the two for 30
cqjjts each."
They had a drink at a neighboring
public house and Collins had cider. "I
see you are a teetotaler," was the In-
spector's comment.
i "Yes, at my game you have to be,"
said Collins In reply, "as you. want a
steady hand with the needle."
"It Is a cruel thing to do," said the
inspector, whereupon Collins re-
marked: "Others do It. and others
have not the heart to do it." !
t A. C. PleBse, a veterinary surgeon,
said he found both birds totally blind.
A needle inserted at the back of the
eye would pierce the optic nerve and
artery, thus bringing about the local
1 conditions he observed in these two
birds.
I "The operation," said Mr. Plesse,
"would be extremely painful. ' The
paiti would laat'fpr some days, due to
neuritis supervening upon the opera-
tion."
Collins said he was innocent of the
charge. .....
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White, F. E. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 20, 1910, newspaper, January 20, 1910; Crosbyton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth242172/m1/9/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Crosby County Public Library.