MYSTERY HORSE

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1932, Page 5

MYSTERY HORSE

SIMBA DESTROYED -... -! ' POLICE ARE NOT SATISFIED. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 9.25 *.m) ■ ’ - v V,,; SYDNEY, July. 4. ' . The mystery horse Simbas broke -*ifs leg while exercising yesterday, and was destroyed. ,

•Simba’s carcaso was removed to the boiling down works but was later . j\ M" spected by the A.J.C. stewards for instructions had been given by the police , that it should not b e destroyed until • vjjr it had been identified. ' " , Although the veterinary opinion leaves no doubt that the horse definitely is Simba, the police are not wholly 'satis- T fied with the identifications. The bone of contention is a small lump on the , offside which characterised its appearance. " ' /. : ■■ ■ ■ 1 Detective-Sergeant Parmetcr, who had charge of ;thff polio© investigations, stated that when he examined the -dead horse, he cou’d flud no trace of a swelling, therefore he was not definitely convinced that it was Simba; . > Tfhe veterinary surgeon, Mr> v Roy Stewart, who destroyed S'trtßa, states: .“There can be little possibility of mistake that the horse. I shot, was a geld- ~ ■ Y.T’"" ing that I 'attended for tee :h .’ trouble at Chisolm’s stable'- three months'ago. \ .a ; I was told then it was Simba, end when I caw him on 'Saturday he had a swelling on the off flank.