MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 144, 7 March 1918, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

» .At the Magistrate's Court yesterday Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., presided, and.dealt with the police cases. • for insobriety, Mary Barclay, against whom there was one previous conviction, was fined 205., in default j seven days' imprisonment. William Edgar Roberts was convicted of being lound drunk while in charge of a motor-car in Adelaide Road on Monday afternoon. According to Inspector Marsack, the man was so drunk that he could not start the car, and fell down in front of it when he made the attempt. Roberts was fined £5, in default one month's imprisonment. CRUELTY TO A HORSE. Before Mr. W. G. Riddel I, S.M., at the Lower Hutt yesterday, Captain James Henry (Inspector for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) proceeded' against Charles Turner 011 a charge of cruelty to a horse. The inspector said that he visited a farm at Lower Hutt 011 January 24, and found Turner in possession of a dark bay horse which had just been working. It had a large sore on each shoulder, under the collar, and, in his opinion, it was gross cruelty to work a horse that was in such a condition. Tlie sores were not new ones. They must have been there for several days. Ho had examined the collar, and found that nothing had been done to ease tbe horse's shoulders, as by wearing a false collar or chambering it where the sores were. The defendant was fined £1, and costs £1 Bs. Mr. R. H. Webb appeared for the SJ'.C.A., and Mr. M. F. Luckie for the defendant.