MAN FINED £5

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2244, 27 June 1929, Page 5

MAN FINED £5

•FOR CRUELTY TO A HORSE A SHOCKING CARE . STRUCK YVTTTI AN AXE (Per Pres.s Association) Christchurch, .Tunc 20. Gross cruelty In a horse was proved asainst Ooovffft Watson, who was Charged '.-by .the .-Society for Iho .Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. The Inspector for the Society. Air I). J White, said lie found a horse on Styx road in a poor condition, lying oft the side of the road and .unable to rise. Further up (he road he met, an express waggon, loaded with nearly a ton of wood—too heavy even for a tit. horse to draw. When he returned later, he found someone had attempted io kill the horse, apparently with an nxe. hut the stroke wa* too low down and although the head bore a terrible wound, the animal was still alive and struggling. Witness destroyed the horse and subsequently found Watson was the owner.

Mr White pressed for Imprisonment as a punishment, saying the casp was one of the worst; in his

experience. Thp Magistrate (Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M.j said if the defendant was a single man die would have gone to gaol. -Be was fined £5, .with costs, in default seven days’ imprieonmen,