HORSES SHOCKINGLY TREATED
MAN CONVICTED OF USING IRRITANT POISON By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne, March 19. At the Supreme Court to-day William Henry Wright was charged with wilfully committing mischief to a mare at Taneatua. The evidence showedthat one horse had been found dead after suffering terrible agony, and another had been badly injured internally. Accused had been arrested for theft, and when his bedroom was searched by the police they found a bottle of corrosive sublimate tablets, a bottle of oil of rhodium, bluestone, tins of toxa poison, five plugs of gelignite, . and automatic firearms and ammunition. Evidence was given that the animal’s death was due to the effects of a powerful irritant. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence was deferred.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 151, 20 March 1924, Page 6
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