LAW AND POLICE.
POLICE COURT. —Wednesday. [Before Mr. H. C. Baddeley, R.M.]
Drunkenness. — James Hadden, Charles Spurgeon, Ellen Hamilton, and John Kean were fined 5s and costs for this offence. Drunk and Disorderly.—George Fox •was charged with being drunk and disorderly at Mount Eden railway-station. Fined £5, or one month's imprisonment. Release of Sureties.—William Noble, the man who had been convicted of playing "three-card monte"at the last Ellerslie races, was placed in the box, when Mr. A. Whitaker said he desired to ask for the release of the sureties in the case, pending an appeal. He believed there was intention to"go further with the proceedings on appeal. Mr. Napier, the prisoner's attorney in the appeal, said this was so, and the prisoner surrendered himself to the custody of the Court. Mr. Whitaker then said that Mr. J. Chiiafe and Captain Palmer desired to be released of their bail-bonds. - The Resident Magistrate granted the application, and the sureties were released.
[Before Dr. GEes, B.M.]
Alleged Cruelty.—W. G. Garrard was charged with cruelty to a dog by beating it to death with a bar of iron, instead of drowning it. Inspector Broham conducted the case on behalf of the prosecution, the information having beer., laid by the Society for the ; Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Sydney Spalding, Frederick Marshall, and L. Wood testified to seeing« Garrard killing the dog by striking it on the head with a piece of iron eighteen inches long. The defence was chat Garrard had tried to drown the dog in a tank by, tying a weight to its neck, the usual cage being out of order, but that the weight had slipped, and the dog, partly drowned, came up, and , hoping to end its misery, he , had tried to brain it with the best weapon he could find. The case was dismissed on the ex - planation, which tended to show it was not deliberate cruelty. - A slaughterman named Charles Inder, at Panniure, was fined 40s and costs for keeping a cow at his slaughter yard without food for several days. ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9098, 5 July 1888, Page 6
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