BEAU CAVALIER’S POOR RELATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 151, 16 September 1927, Page 9

BEAU CAVALIER’S POOR RELATION

“BUNDLE OF BONES” OWNER FINED FOR CRUELTY DRUNK with the elation that victory brings. Beau Cavalier probably has no thought for poor relations in Auckland, but one more, now dead, would have been •glad if blood-bonds with the great could have brought a good feed of hay and oats her way. The sad tale was told in the Police Court to-day. This mare, suffering from mud fever, and a rheumatic deposit in the hock, lived for months in a bare paddock, unsheltered, during the rigorous winter weather. Meanwhile, another member of the family was hurdling his way to affluence. James Huntly Beeson, the owner of the mare, was charged to-day with cruelly ill-treating her. Pearl Dawson, veterinary surgeon, said that she found the mare in poor more than a. bundle of bones, and unable to put one foot to the ground. Henry Ferguson, inspector for the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said that the mare had been in the paddock for two months. There was little grass, and it had received no attention from the owner. The horse was related to Beau Cavalier, and had now been destroyed. The magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, held that the animal had been treated negligently, ar„d he fined defendant £5 and ordered him to pay £5 16s costs. A second charge of ill-treating a gelding was dismissed.