IS THE HORSE FIEND ABROAD?

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 974, 15 November 1910, Page 4

IS THE HORSE FIEND ABROAD?

DASTARDLY OUTRAGE AT CHRISTCHURCH. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Christchurch, November 14. A peculiarly dastardly outrage was committed in Christchurch . yesterday. Early in the evening Mr. H. Smith, caretaker of the Cricket Association's grounds in Hagloy Park, tethered a mare lie uses for his work close to his house, and left her with some fodder and a bucket of water. This morning Mr. Smith and his assistant went • out to get the mare, in order to carry on his operations, but, to thoir surprise, they could not find her. A search showed that she had been taken from tether to tho back of a hedge near the house, and had. there been killed. A large wound extended across her throat, and there was also a wound over one thigh, the knifo evidently having been sent deep into the flesh, for the bone was laid bare. A bucket was found close to the body, which the perpetrator of tho outrage had evidently tried to get into the old watercourse.. Tho horse, whioh was valued at .£SO, belonged to the Hagloy Park Ground Committee. The police authorities, who have tho matter in hand, do not think that the "horse fiond" is abroad again, and there is an impression that the deed could have been dictated only by spite.