RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
(Before L. Broad, Esq , R.M.) This Day. Westrup v. Freeman. ~~Th'\B was an action to recover the sum of £4 10s, for damage alleged to have 'been done to a dingy, and for goods supplied to defendant. Mr Acton Adams appeared fpr the plaintiff, and Mr Fell for the defendant. Plaintiff was nonsuited. « Oharles Sutherland was charged, under the Protection to Animals Act, with killing a black swan, the property of the Acclimatisation Sooiety., The swan was well known to everyone in Nelson, having been running about the streets in a tame, state for nearly ten years. Constable Shore said that on Monday night he saw the prisoner deliberately drive tho bird into the alley between Joseph's shop and the Masonic Hotel, and in a few seconds come out with it under his arm. On his going up to him he dropped the bird, the neck of which was broken, and bolted. , Prisoner said that .he accidentally stumbled and fell on the bird, for which he was willing to pay the full value.
The Resident Magistrate said that it was an outrageous thiog that a bird like this should be thus 'wantonly and wickedly killed, and he should fine the prisoner £5 and costs, 9s, or iii default send' him to prison for fourteen days.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 152, 25 June 1873, Page 2
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218RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 152, 25 June 1873, Page 2
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