CRUELTY TO A HORSE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 129, 28 November 1923, Page 15

CRUELTY TO A HORSE

BOTH THRASHED AND BURNED.

(BY TELEGKAFB—PBSSS iSSOCUHON.)

TIMAEU, 27th November. At Temuka to-day, before Mr. Mosley, S.M., Ashborne Hendeisoa (farm manager) and David Tripney (farm labpurer) pleaded not guilty to a charge ef 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 willow stake. He felled the animal, which afterwards was yoked to a heavy Cambridge roller, and was still further beaten. Henderson next set fire to a °Pndl| i> f dead gorse under the horse. 7i. S-P:V IA- lnsPector gave evidence that the horse had been burned, and that he had seen the raw flesh. The defence was that the horse had refused to work and a battle for the mastery ensued between man and beast. The fire was allegedly lighted to frighten the horse into subjection. The Magistrate complimented the witnesses on coming 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 £3135.