Shocking Cruelty to a Horse.
"(UNiTED PBESS ASSOCIATION)' Nelson,. Wednesday./ ' A charge of shocking cruelty to a Horse was heard at the Brightwater court today. "William Harris and David Currin were charged with cruelty beating and illtreating a horse by kicking it and beating it and pulling offa portion of its 'tongue, thereby causing it* such torture and agony that it became necessary to des-; stroy the animal. Harris pleadedguilty, Curren being defended. Harris was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour, Currin being fined £& and costs., The horse refusing to move, and kicking, the defendants whipped and beat the horse, ultimately catching hold of its tongue, some : five inches of which Game away. They afterwards took the horse = away and shot it, and stated m court that they had been drinking and knew nothing of what occurred. , •
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1632, 11 February 1886, Page 4
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139Shocking Cruelty to a Horse. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1632, 11 February 1886, Page 4
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