The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-30
NINE YEARS N 4 STALL,
Fearful Punishment of q Runaway
Horse.

! A disabled, worthless horse, tht
property of Samuel J. Haynes, {
Racine county farmer, was shot anc
killed recently by Superintendent
Whitehead, says the Milwaukee
Sentinel. Haynes was taken before
Justice DR.. Palmer in Raymond
Center and pleaded guilty to the
charge Of torturing and tormentine
an animal. He was fined $25 and
costs, $31 in all, which he paid.
/ The case is very peculiar one
Nine years ago, while hitched to a
moving machine, the horse ran
away with Haynes. This 80 enraged
him that he swore he would keep
him locked up from that time on.
He was true to his word, and from
May /, 1881, until last week the
poor animal was not allowed to
leave his stall.
Information of the fact of horse
being kept a prisoner reached Su-
perintendent Whitehead a few days
ago. Accompanied by deputy sher-
iff Drought, he started out one
morning to find the man. Haynes
is about 60 years old, a bachelor.
and has the reputation among all
who know him Of being an unusu-
ally kind-hearted man.
Superintendent Whitehead, who
returned last week, speaking about
his trip, said:
"When we reached Haynes place
we found nobody at home and pro-
ceeded at once to the barn. There
we found the horse. l never saw
such sight before. Imagine
once beautiful sorrel horse, with
curved neck and big flashing eyes
reduced to mere skeleton, the
eyes sunk deep in their sockets, the
ribs projecting and both sides COW
cred with bed sores all over, and
you'll get an idea of what l saw.
When we examined the horse and
the stall that it stood in we found
that the manure had not been re-
moved from it for long time. The
bones of the animal had grown in
wonderful manner, until they had
formed aperfect half-circle, curving
upward and coming within an inch
of the shins. They appeared like
the rockers under chair. AS the
owner told us afterward, he had
once sawed the bones off, or else
they would have grown around the
shins. Drought and l were too sur
prised to say much. Just then
Haynes came limping into the sta
bic and wanted to know what we
wanted. Drought knew him and
explained who l was and what l
had come for. While / united the
horse, the first time in nine years,
Haynes protested, but l continued
and the horse hobbled slowly out of
the stable. The moment it touched
the grass and saw the blue sky over
head it rubbed its head against my
arm and gave low whinny. The
farmer stood astounded and said
he had not thought it could walk.
Slowly and laboriously propelling
itself on the rocker-like hoofs, the
animal began to nibble the grass
where it could reach it.
Il convinced the farmer that the
horse was entirely useless, but it
required more than twenty minutes
talk before he gave orders to shoot
it. without a word of objection
Haynes then got in with us in the
buggy, and we drove to the office of
Justice Palmer, at Raymond Center.
Haynes paid his fine and we re-
turned"
Haynes offered no explanation Of
his strange and unnatural cruelty |
to the animal during these years,
and refused to speak of it. The
hind feet of the horse measured ten
and the forefeet nineteen inches.
They were sawed off from the legs
by Superintendent Whitehead and
brought to town. Veterinary Sur
geon Touissant will mount them
properly, when they are to be added
to the collection of curiosities now
in the Office of the Humane Society.
His Big Gravestone Stalled TWen-
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