A tale of shame and cruelty / by Josiah Oldfield.

  • Josiah Oldfield
Date:
[1906?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A tale of shame and cruelty / by Josiah Oldfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    beating, ‘because the driver is paid so much for loading them, and the more fre- quently he can go backwards and forwards the more money he can earn.’”’ Mr. Fleming, a bullock man of forty- one years’ experience on board ship, pleaded that the stick marks were not made on board ship, but by the drovers who had charge of them going to and from the railways and markets. But Mr. O’Connor, an Irish cattle dealer, declared that there was ten times as much stick used on board the boats as anywhere else. Several witnesses spoke to beatings with ropes and sticks in order to force the beasts up or down steep gangways and cattle ladders. ‘The worst class of bruises, however, are described as those which occur through animals falling or lying down on shipboard and getting trampled on. To these causes are ascribed not only extensive bruises of the muscles, but broken ribs and hips, and laceration of the subcutaneous tissues which connect the skin to the subjacent fasciz of the back, at times so extensive that when the beast having been flayed along the legs and underportions, is slung up by the legs for the purpose of com- pleting the operation, the skin on being loosened round the tail, is described as
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