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COCK-FIGHTING POLICE RAID.

SIR ROBERT JARDINE IS 'FINED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1928.

NORFOLK SUMMONSES.

Several men well known on the Turf were summoned at East

trespass could be dealt with later, Practically all the men were nak ed for their names and addresses, and they all doclined to give theni:" He then refused to allow any of them to leave until they com- plied with his request. After a consultation Among themselves the men agreed to give their names and addresses.

There were 17 other cocks. In bexes and baskets on the pre- mlacs, he said. Some of them had certainly been in fights.

Harling, Norfolk, on July 16, One of the men, added the off- following a police raid on a farmer, sald, as the pollee wore will find the old cock tough."KA taking the birds, away. "You-

at the village of Old Buckenham when a cock-fight was in progress. Mr. C. E. Harvey, junior, the occupier of the farm, was aum. moned for allowing the cock- fighting to take place and 18 others summoned for assisting,

werb:

Sir John Buchanan Jardine, Mr. Felix W. Lench, Mr. Reginald Day, Mr. J. H. Wright, and Mr. Frank Griggs, all of New-imarket.

Mr. E. H. Lowe and Mr. Her- bert Pepper, of Hathwaite, Mans

| field.

Mr. A. E. Cooke-Watson and Mr. Thomas Munks, of Mansfield.

Mr. Brown-For eating pur- poses, I presume. (Laughter.)

No Betting.

Sir Patrick These cocks you Lookhave you kept them apart? -Oh, yes.Y

if you did not? They would not You know what would happen be niive to-day.

Lord Albemarle-Were there any signs of betting?I saw no. thing of that kind,

A police sergeant produced one of the cocks taken possession of. It was held by its wings and legs over the solicitors' table,

Mr. William Matthews Hodg-and.snapped at a pencil hold near son, Burghby-Sands, Carlisle,

its head.

Mr. E. W. Glaister, Stainton, Carlisle.

Mr. Thomas Metcalfe, Kendal, Westmorland.

"Some of the wing feathers were cut down to the flesh," said the polico sergeant. "There was blood on it, and it had several were very exhausted when the punctured wounds. Both birds

fight was stopped; in fact it was Mr. William Tunstall, and Mr.a week before I could got them Frederick Egerlon, of Trentham, to eat anything hardly." Staffordshire,

Mr. T. G. Lewis Kingston-rond, Portsmouth.

This closed the case for the pro-

Mr. Frederick Jarvis, Old secution. Buckenham.

Sir Patrick Hastings submitted

Mr. Bertie Johnson, Swaffham that there was no case to answer,

Prior: Cambridgeshire, and

י

and that the prosecution was based on a misconception of the

Mr. William Rolfe, Swaffhamaw as it had existed for certainly Bulbuck, Cambridgeshire.

Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C. (de- fending) pleaded not guilty.

Carpeted Floor:

100 years,

"I am sure the Bench will know," he said, "that cockfighting has been an English sport almost from the earliest days. I think Mr. H. Oswald Brown, solicitor, there is a great deal of misconcep prosecuting, said that the proceed-tion about the cruelty of cock- inga were taken under the Pro-fighting. That was why I was tection of Animals Act. 1911, curious to see if there was to be Section I. of which prohibited any evidence concerning any- any person causing, procuring, thing like what one hears in cases For asalsting at the fighting or of wounded partridges and

balting of any animals.

wounded hares that, are killed in the course of sport. I understand from those who have made a study artificial of this sport that the spurs are far more humnale thán the spurs with which the cock is naturally endowed. If n fights with its own spurs, I have read, they inflict much worse wounds, and everybody knowɑ that if those birds are allowed to fight, such is their natural ins "This was not a freak or un-stinct that nothing can separate premeditated fight," he aald them and they will fight to the

conac-

"On Monday, June 18," he said, "the police kept observation on Stud Farm, owned by Charles Edward Harvey, and in quence Superintendent Carter and four other officers went to the farm, where they found a cock tight taking place in a horse box. The men before the Court were all in the horse box,

"Careful preparations had been death.

mile for it. The horse box had

a thick red carpet on the floor,

and there was a 'ring' twelve feet

square Inade of bajze covered

Magistrates' Decision.

cock

"I am not advocating cack-

boards. The two birds in the ring fighting," he added, "because we had been prepared for cock-fight-know that it has licen prohibited Ing, being armed with arti-by law since 1849."

ficial spurs."

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Sir Patrick referred to two! Here Mr. Brown handed up a case in 1863 to show that for allver spurs to Lord people to look on at cockfighting was not sufficient to justify charges of assisting in promoting "In addition," Mr.. Brown said, the fight. "the birds had their combs and

Ils clienta, who were men of wattles cut, the feathers round position, felt it keenly that It their neck were trimmed short, had been suggested that they the wing feathers were clipped, were doing something they knew and the tail feathers were partly to be illegal, he said. clipped and partly cut short, all

of which, I am instructed, is part

The Bench decided that there

of the routine for preparing birde was a cone to answer, and Sir for fighting. The birds in the Patrick said that he did not pro- ring were injured as a result of pose to call any evidence, but their fight. Their heads, legs, and would ask the Bench to state a bodies were marked with blood." case.

Fight Stopped.

Sir

Sixteen of the men were each fined £10, and Lord Albemarle In an adjoining room another Haid that a case would be stated

in due course., bird was found, also marked with

Mr. Brown withdrew the blood and appearing to have been used for fighting, he said. There charges against Johnson, Jarvis, was also a further supply of and Rolfe. Two of them were spurs. The first action of the gamekeepers employed by police was to pick up the two John Jardine, he said, and the birds and put an end to the fight, other was a stud groom employed

by Harvey.. They took passession of the spurs, despite the protests of Leach, who said, "You have all the evidence you want without those."

Superintndent Oscar Carter said that the raid was made about 3.30 in the afternoon. Inspector Clarke was the first in the stable. He said, "I am going to stop this fight," and picked up one of the cocks. The other cock was in a fighting attitude, looking for its opponent. One spectator shout- ed, "Where is your warrant?" and the Inspector produced, his war-

cant card. Another man said the Inspector had no right there. They all refused to give their names, and Harvey asked the Superintendent for his warrant.

"I told him," said the Superin- tendent, "that I did not require a warrant to go on anybody's' place. When Harvey was asked for the names of the other men, he said, I do not know one of them. Louch said, "Order them off the place, Mr. Harvey; they aro trespassers and have no busi- ness here."

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