TOOK AXE TO COW
FARMER SENT TO PRISON VANISHED AFTER OFFENCE (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) NAPIER, Monday “This man was seen, while milking a cow, to get an axe and strike the animai l with the blade on the legs, head and ribs. A constable found the cow lame and bleeding,” said Senior-Sergeant Felton in the Napier Magistrate’s Court when Egerton Thomas Branford Webster was charged with cruelty. A plea of guilty was entered by Mr S. H. Morrison. The offence occurred on November 28, 1939, said the senior-sergeant, but accused disappeared after the police questioned him, and had not been traced until now. Mr Morrison explained that accused had been a dairy farmer until the war. Being a naval reservist, he was called up. Counsel admitted it was a bad case of cruelty.
“It is one of the worst cases I have heard,” said the magistrate, Mr J. Miller. “If this man lost his temper he could have picked up something less harmful than an axfe. It was brutal and wilful treatment, and is not a case for a fine. He will be convicted and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21250, 22 October 1940, Page 7
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191TOOK AXE TO COW Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21250, 22 October 1940, Page 7
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