The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-25 00:00:00

THAMES.

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.—Several men were charged, at
the instance of the officers of the Royal Society for tho
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with cruelty to horses.
George Petitt, greengrocer, Bow, was charged with wil-
fully torturing a horse by working it in an unfit state. An
officer of the Royal Society, named Joseph Dobee, saw tho
defendant driving a horse and cart in the Coborn-road,
Bow. The horse was in a low weekly condition, and was
attached to a van laden with coke. There was a wound
on its back three and a half inches long and one inch in
breadth. Matter was running from the wound, and a
piece of carpet was placed under the saddle. The horse
had beon in the same condition a week.
Mr. Partridge looked at the horse, in the yard behind
the court, and on his return to the bench said it was most
disgraceful to work his horse in the condition it was in.
The prisoner said he would attend to his horse, and it
would be well in two days• _ . _

Mr. Partridge (indignantly)—Two days, man ! You
have no.idea of the sufferings of that poor dumb animal.
It will take at least a fortnight to get that horse well. I
will allow you to go at large on entering into recognisanees
to appear here this day fortnight with the horse, and it
depends on your conduct for the next 14 days, and your
treatment of the horse, what punishment will be inflicted.
Alexander Sutherland, a waggoner, who was discovered
by Ynung and Dobie, of the Royal Society, with a horse
yoked to a cart with dreadful sores on its back and shoul-
ders, next appeared. The officers said the horse had been
killed since the first investigation last week.
Mr. Partridge discharged the prisoner, and warned him
that if he worked any horse in a similar condition again
he would be severely punished.
Elias Abrahams, a tradesman in the City, and George
Rensby, a boy in his employ, were charged with cruelty
to a horse.

Tobutt, a police-constable, No. 660 H, stated that on the
15th of the present month he saw the boy in charge of a
horse and cart. There was a large sore under the saddle,
running with offensive matter. The prisoner said his
master, Mr. Abrahams, sent hieL out with the horse and
cart. The cart was laden with packing cases.
Dobie said ho accompanied another officer of the Royal
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the
last witness to the stables of Mr. Abrahams, where he saw
a horse in very poor condition, and with a sore on its back,
in a state of groat suffering.
Abrahams pleaded ignorance of the condition of the
horse, and said it was now well. He commissioned another
person to buy a horse and was deceived. _

Mr. Partridge ordered Abrahams to pay 25., and dis-
charged the boy. He was very glad the Royal Society
were keeping a sharp look-out for the prevention of cruelty
to that useful animal the horse.

STRANGE ACCIDENT.—A fatal accident occurred
at Paignton on Wednesday. Mrs. Petherbridge,
wife of a respectable farmer of 2,llrldon, fle:ling, her has
band late on his return from Newton market, feared that
something had happened to him. She directed the man
servant to put the horse in the trap, and drove off with
him in the direction of Newton, She had not proceede,t
above a couple of miles when she met her husband on
horseback. The horses, knowing each other, stopped sud-
denly, and Mr.Petherbridge being,as it is supposed, drowsy,,
and not on the alert, was pitched over the head of the
horse by the sudden and unexpected stoppage, all 4 killed
op the spot.-- kiterborne Journal.