CHARGE OF POISONING A HORSE.
AUCKLAND, Wednes. At the Supreme Court, John Solomon Taylor was to-day tried for the second time on a charge of poisoning a horse at Hamilton. The jury disagreed at the first trial. The evidence was that the accused, who lived with the owner of the horse, went to a chemist's shop, when he inquired of the assistant how much arsenic would it take to knock ovev a horse. The same evening he went to another chemist's shop and purchased four ounces of poison. The horse died the next day, as was found afterwards, from arsenical poisoning. Accused stated he purchased the poison to kill rats. He was found guilty, and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 June 1907, Page 4
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120CHARGE OF POISONING A HORSE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 June 1907, Page 4
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