RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.—GISBORNE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1179, 19 October 1882, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.—GISBORNE.

This Day [Before M. Price, Esq., R.M.] Furious Riding. Henry Warren was charged with having on the 17th inst., furiously ridden a horse in the Gladstone Road. Defendant said the horse bolted with him, and he could not pull him up. Sergeant Bullen then called Constable Walsh who proved seeing the defendant riding a horse furiously on the Gladstone Road, on the day in question. The horse was going as hard as he could. He (witness) could not say whether the defendant was urging the horse or not. J, H. Brooks was called, and stated that he saw the defendant on the day in question galloping the horse along the Gladstone Road. The dust was too thick for him to see whether defendant was urging the horse on or not. He could not say whether defendant was holding or urging "the horse. This was the case for the prosecution. Defendant stated that he got on bis horse at Page’s corner, aud the horse bolted with him before he could put his second foot in the stirrups. The martingale broke, and the horse got as far as Murray’s Hotel before he could pull him up. John Hearfield was called, and proved the horse to be a bolter; he saw the defendant on the day in question doing his best to pull the horse up. F. E. Murray was called, and stated that he lent the defendant the horse on the 17th instant. The horse is a bolter, and he saw the defendant on the day in quesoion riding the horse, which had evidently run away with him. The Resident Magistrate said that under the circumstances the case would be dismissed.