This sad story comes from the New York Press
Lynching By Wholesale
Victims Were Dogs on Whom the Owners Refused to Pay Tax.
Special to The Press.
Kingston, N.Y., . — Twenty-five dogs, of all sizes and breeds, are hanging from trees in a small grove on the outskirts of the city. They belonged to households in the Polish settlement, and their execution was determined upon at a formal meeting and after a long discussion.
A new city ordinance requires that every dog be registered before on penalty to his owner of conviction of a misdemeanor and imprisonment. The fee for registering is $1.10. The Poles decided to kill their dogs rather than pay out this good money, and so a big lynching party led the dogs at the end of ropes to the grove.
The women and children of the settlement cried and wailed as their pets were strung up. The lynchers shrugged their shoulders. To-night the Polish settlement is very quiet. Strangers, whose business calls them in that neighborhood at night, are glad the barking dogs are gone. In a few days the grove will be shunned by even the birds, if the hot weather continues.
