A BAD CASE OF CRUELTY. ILL-TREATMENT OF HORSES.
f»Y TKI.KfiKAra — VltfiSS ASSOCIATION.] NEW PLYMOUTH, 18th February. On Saturday night someone who had seen cruelty inflicted on a team of horses being clrhen between hero and Okato, told tho police what ho had seen. On Monday two constables watched for the wagon coming into town. When they saw it they ordeiorl the driver to slop. Tho police examined the fivo horpes. There was only ono sound horse in tho team. Four of the poor brutes were totally unlit to be used. Their shonldoi'd wore unsightly with terrible sores. Ono horse in particular was iv a frightful etate. Tito collars and some sacking weie besmeared with blood. Tho police arrested the driver, Stanley Wooldndgc, of Okato, and had tho horse:? placofl in stables. This morning Wooldridge was brought before tin court and charged with cruelly illlreating the hoi' Fes. lie pleaded guilty. Tho court examined tho horses, and the Stipendary Magistrate, Mr. H. S. Fitzherbert, expressed his feelings on tho matter by denouncing the caso as one of tho worst ho had known. Sentence was deferred. Accused was remanded to appear on tho 24th inst. His father, W. H. Wooldridge, of Okato, will bo subpoenaed to appear. The court ordered that the horecs should .be turned out in n paddock and not used until woll. Ait used was al lownrl nut of cuAlorty on his own i'oAfWiißance of £2Q t
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 42, 19 February 1908, Page 2
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