DARGAVILLE COURT CASES.
DARG-AYILLE, 28th Dec. j ' A Maori named Jack Ashby pleaded gdilty at the Helensville Court to-day of cruelly ill-treating a valuable young cattle dog by picking it u]3, swinging it round his head, and dashing it to the ground, causing its legs to be broken and its hip severely crushed. The dog was a valuable one, £10 having been refused for it by the same owner Accused expressed regret, but said that the dog had been worrying his horses. He was fined £5 and costs, or fourteen days' imprisonment. A young man named Thomas Stewart, recently discharged off the e.s. Tuirangi because he was suspected of carrying liquor on board, on Christmas Eve violently assaulted Captain Sellars, and did hie beat to throw the skipper overboard. To-day he was brought before the court and charged with assault and using obscene language. He vras sentenced to aix weeks' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be cumulative.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 155, 29 December 1910, Page 3
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