The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-01-23 00:00:00

PETTY BEBBIONB.

THCISDAY.

Before G. Oartie. Esq. (itx•lLayot). and W. N. Western.
Bp.
Kn. Harriet Keynes, butcher, was summoned for
having stymied foe solo and End • rabbit " wadi for the
fo4 of wan."
li,. 8. IL Dickinson prossouj.d on behall of Mr.
KUord. the Inspector of Nalsanas. ; and Mn. H. 8. Diana.
son was for the &tenon
H. 8 Dickinson contended that before • conviction
oould be arrived at it we. necessary the article in question
should have been condemsed by the inagistratos. This
had sot been dons

—TlZlonai bortliks viiir of the es.. mid dismissed it.
Mx. H. 8. Dickinson applied on behalf of defendant for
colts but Wes refused.

• LIGHT oznatfe.
Benjamin WA* of Parkstona Keith and farmer, was
charged with cruelly torturing a horse, on the 13,11 sad
HUm_ _

—Kr. Be ne prosecuted on behalf of the polico, and Me
U. & Dickinson was for the defence.
Mr. Budge opened tho case as one of excenive cruelif,
and called the following evidence.
Robert Bookinahanz said on the 13th be was gMog
towards Parkstone station, and saw the defenint looking
at a b°r",
which warn lying In • field, but he did not take
mach notice. He went to Boons% and returned in the
afternoon, and sew them pulling it along with two
other hones. He saw it on the followint day—tho
Sunday—and it was then near • bnck-kiln. Us .t.ts was
not very " comfortable," he should think, and sob, went
to Sergeant Bridle, ant asked him to come and pot it out
of his misery.
Croem-examieed : He had seen bones that were down
" shifted" before now. He had seen it done with • rope
round the neck and the front-leg.. He could not sty the
horse had not walked to the spot whets he saw it on the
Sunday. although, of course, he c mid not bon knowing-
He could not say when* the hone had plenty of lust, to
the Bald.
William George Coombe said on Saturday about three
be saw defendant. and he asked him to try and .M
bons up. They could not do so, and then the, Puma
out.
How f —W•_put one horn on his nick and one on his
front kr —With chains I—Tea—How far did you Poll
him 1— hoe. • lug—Did anything happen whilst you
wen doing this f—Yes, the chain broki ince round his
neck, and then we pot it on his front kin—Did the
defendant say what he was going to do with it I—He said
he was going to pull it into the Whom, and got tome one
to kill it. There was no sten, or feed about.
Crone-examined •. Hr. Welch canted the bone's hind,
and acted kindly with it !
By the Bench: Tbe horse was dragged about 100 Yu&
before the chain broke.
William Tolson, of Parkstone, said on Sunday al terooos
'1 nit he was walking down Constitution Hid, and two
! gentlemen called his &Mattson to • horse. It wes lying
on the ground with its eyes turned, and seeming to pion
for help. Toe eye we, p iseliog. There wa, grasa tone
but be did not believe ne animal was all, to eat it.
George Waiter Whits. livery-stable keep or, of Parkideas,
said on Sunday, shunt three, bs saw the horn. It was in
• dying state. The eye undernath was bleeding, when
he had bees dragged. It was foaming at the month and
groaning. aad ha shot it to put It out of its misery.
Crom-aganoined : When • hone was down, the prover
. way to get it tin was cannily not to put • chain rotted
its seek. Ha And at the bona whets hes shot it. but it w
ea aid gm end bail on Week se be then Amok

R...steelaed : The horse *Wit to have been billed
•Ire e i• was in the Ant *sea
A re. ant Bridle maid in «moquettes of the talons*.
tin, Pe. n Imo on the It tnday, he I•Pnt and s %sr the ho'..
ID q..est on. It was realigns irons ths moo h. and
ye ng CO for it. It bad been plunging abort. Re saw
Welch. and said be had add the h ree t a man for the
aid ha thought it would have been taken away
thee, end that it would have been dead. It was
1), ~ Jolt litiyarde Ir in the highway.
14 hr. Western: Ha had seen the horse before, and it
w sere."_bere." _

W.-liichn. foe the defence. contended Welch
Iret wed all realm:labia ear*, and bad exhibited all the
"inane,e that c old be expected. Ilia two meglat,alm.
a consoltstbn, axed the defendact LI and C-111.11.
, is all I:2 7..