HORSE ILL-TREATED

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 54, 28 November 1923, Page 6

HORSE ILL-TREATED

CRUELLY BEATEN AND BURNED By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, November 27. At Temuka to-day, before Air. Afosley, S.M., Ashborne Henderson (farm manager), and David Tripney (farm labourer) pleaded' not guilty to a oharge of cruelly ill-treating a horse. Evidence was given by passers-by to the effect that Henderson had been seen mercilessly pounding the horse with a heavy w ; llow stake. He felled tho animal, which afterwards was yoked to a heavy Cambridge roller, and was still further beaten. Henderson next set fire to a bundle of dead gorse under the horse. The S.P.C.A. inspector gave evidence that the horse had been burned, and that he had seen the raw flesh. The defence was that tho horse bad refused to work and a battle for the mastery ensued between man and boast. Tho fire was allegedly lighted to frighten the horse into subjection. The Alagistrate complimented the wTnesses on coniine- forward in the interests of justice. He sentenced Henderson, who was on crutches with a broken leg to three months’ imprisonment. Tripney was fined £5 with costs £3 13s.