CRUELTY TO HORSES.
fr-rrr—-A NEW PLYMOUTH CASE. : J.". (by telegraph—special .correspondent.) •-. New Plymouth,' February 24; Last Monday the Magistrates' Court, Now Plymouth, heard a case of cruelty to horses. Stanley Yyooldridge, a driver, Avas beforo tho Court, and'pleaded guilty; sentence-being, deferred alicl tho case remanded till to-day, so that accused's father (tho owner of tho horses) might bo ! brought beforo tlio Court. His Worship!said-that th.o horsos themselves wero tho best evidence. ;.-i. Tho wounds ana sores must have been tliero for weeks, aiid were in a, horriblo state.- ilt was the worst case -ho had ever seen., Theso poor dumb animals, which did. Wooldridgo's work, had no means of retaliating, and had to suffer ill silence. Cruelty to dumb animals was the, worst cruelty; Ho had power to scntoncq accused to several mouths',, imprisonment, and intended to inflict a substantial penalty in respect of the S. J. \Yooldrido;o was fined £10 and costs, in default a month's imprisonment, and.. S, Vooldridgo £u and costs, in default, a -month's'"imprisonment-.'.'''
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 130, 25 February 1908, Page 9
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168CRUELTY TO HORSES. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 130, 25 February 1908, Page 9
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