BARK OF TREES EATEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 July 1932, Page 5

BARK OF TREES EATEN

CRUELTY TO HORSE. LONDON, June 14L What the chairman described as “the worst case of systematic and abominable cruelty” they had ever dealt with came before the Bromley Bench yesterday, when Charles Weston, 58, labourer, Xork-road, Bigginhill, was sentenced to two months’ hard labour. Defendant, who was charged with causing unnecessary suffering to three horses, two dogs, twenty pigeons, s eight ducks, a rabbit, and several fowls, was ordered to pay ten guineas costs. x Mr’w. G. Weller, for |he said it was a most revolting case ,of continuous cruelty, with dire results. Weston owned a small plot of land 1 on which there was a shed. He aved in this shed, together with some of the animals. Inspector Jack Grant, of the R.S.P.C.A., said that a gelding was almost a skeleton. A filly was in almost as bad a condition. A tethered horse was very emaciated. There was no food near it, and it had eaten the bark off the trees wh ll * ll i l- s r e ac hIn a box a hen was sitting on five live chickens and three dead ones. Although the hen was fully grown it did. not weigh more than half a pound. In another box was a rabbit starving. Weston was also fined 25/- for having been drunk, and incapable. Several previous convictisn for drunkenness were proved!, .