CRUELTY TO HORSES
ROPE ROUND TONGUE
BRISBANE. Feb. 22
At the Cabooltuie Summons Court yesterday. Henry Boweii Barnes, dairy farmer and a Justice of the Peace, was found guilty of having ill-treated a horse. Evidence showed that defendant tied a rope around the horse's tongue and led it for about 80yds. While he was opening a gate, the horse pulled back and its tongue was practically severed.
After several days' the horse was destroyed, under instructions of the police. Defendant, said he had seen veterinary snroeons at the llawkeshnry College lead' ing horses by the tongue. The magistrate, in imposing a line of .CI and costs, said he had taken into consideration the fact that defendant did not think; ha was doing a deliberately cruel act.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18955, 4 March 1936, Page 3
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126CRUELTY TO HORSES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18955, 4 March 1936, Page 3
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