DISGRACEFUL CRUELTY TO A HORSE.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2059, 29 September 1880, Page 3

DISGRACEFUL CRUELTY TO A HORSE.

At the Kaiapoi Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr Beswiok, 8.M., B. Nesbitt was charged with cruelty to a horse, which ho had refused to release from the Kaiapoi pound. The evidence ehowed that the horse was in a dreadful state, unable to stand, ono hoof apparently dislocated and turned up, the fetlock on which the poor animal had been standing being a mass of coagulated blood and vermin. Accused denied the charge, and stated that the horse belonged to Mr John Perrin. The Bench thereupon adjourned the case for ono hour, for Mr Perrin’s attendance. On resuming, John Perrin deposed that ho had given the horse to accused four months’ ago, and he had never since had any interest in the animal. The poundkeeper proved that accused had previously released this horse from the pound and paid the foes, stating that the horse was his property. Accused, on being asked if he had anything to say in answer to Perrin’s evidence, stated that on the day of being ejected for nonpayment of rent from his last place of abode, he had sold the horse to soma man, name unknown, for five shillings. The Magistrate commented severely on the cruelty of accused’s conduct in keeping a horse in such a state, and sentenced him to one month’s imprisonment with hard labor, without the option of a fine.