REVENGE ON ANIMAL
FINE FOR BEATING SHEEP
“Although the circumstances are suspicious, it lias not been proved that defendant hamstrung the slioep, but it is clear that he cruelly beat the animal. Somebody, at any rate, struck one of the sheep's legs with a sharp instrument, and this is an offence which merits nothing; less than a term of imprisonment. I am afraid that 1 cannot accept defendant’s statement that he gently touched the sheep with his shovel. He was obviously angry and allowed his temper to ,get the better of him. Defendant had a grievance against the informant, and took his revenge on a harmless animal.” This statement of Mx. C. li. OrrWalker, S.M., was made in the Timaru Magistrate’s Court last week, when George Joss, foreman of the Borough Council’s gang at the water-race, was fined £7 10/and costs amounting to £6 3/- for having cruelly beaten a sheep at Fairview on November 21, last year.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4416, 18 February 1930, Page 1
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158REVENGE ON ANIMAL Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4416, 18 February 1930, Page 1
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