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Cruelly Ill-Treating Horses |
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Joseph MILLER, horse dealer, Carlisle, was summoned for causing a horse to be worked in an unfit state on the 21st ult., and Joseph BOUSTEAD, servant, was charged with driving the animal.
Inspector CRAIGIE of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said he saw the horse in a cart in charge of BOUSTEAD. The animal was in poor emaciated condition, and was so weak that it was utterly unable to work. There was a wound on its back. MILLER subsequently told him he bought the horse for 30s, and did not intend to work it. The horse had been put down. Fined 5s and costs each.
Robert HETHERINGTON, farmer, for working a pony suffering from a hock wound, on the 1st ult., was fined 5s and costs; a lad who was driving the pony was also summoned, but the Bench declined to convict him.
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Carlisle Patriot