SHOCKING CRUELTY.
SEVEN DAYS’ GAOL. (T'er Precis Association.) Auckland, July 7. A shocking case of cruelty to animals was thscolsed at tlie Police Court to-day, when a hawker named Harry Compton had to answer to a charge of having worked a horse while it was suffering from a sore back. Inspector Alder, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, saw Compton with his horse and cart at the city market this morning, and noticing blood oozing out from under the saddle on the horse, he inspected it. Just under the saddle was a hole of festering flesh, large enough for a man’s closed hand to lie in. After viewing the animal, Mr Cutten, S.M., raid that for such an inhuman offence defendant would have to suffer. lie would be sent to prison for seven days.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 116, 8 July 1911, Page 5
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