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violently at almost every step the pony took. The cart rolled 
about the road, from one side to the other, in consequence 
of the manner in which the pony staggered. He saw a 
crowd round the pony, and when it stopped at the Cross 
Keys, he went up and said, in the defendant’s presence, 
that he had been using the pony shamefully, and that 
he deserved to be beaten as he had beaten the animal, 
and that if he knew who he was, he would ee pull” him. The 
defendant drove off at a sort of walking pace, and when he 
had gone a short distance he again began to beat the pony 
with his whip, the same as he had done before. 
By Mr. Williams. — He did not give any information with 
regard to the defendant’s conduct until last Friday week. 
Henry Howell, a toll-gatekeeper at Wycombe, proved 
that the defendant passed through his gate on his return to 
Oxford, between five and six in the afternoon. Witness 
knew that he was doing a match against time, and from the 
appearance of the pony he w r as induced to say to him that 
he thought he had lost it, and the defendant replied, that 
he was afraid he had, unless he could get a leader at 
Wycombe. 
By the Bench. — The pony w T as under duty, and he should 
say not more than twelve hands high. 
Mr. George Church, a tradesman, residing at Wycombe, 
proved that he put his hand on the pony as it passed 
through the town in the evening, and observed that he was 
very cold, and appeared dead beat. The defendant flogged 
the animal continually, and there were wheals in the side 
from the whip in which he could place his finger. When 
the pony was put in, after being taken into the Falcon yard, 
the defendant appeared to be the worse for liquor, and 
several people told him he could not w in his match, and it 
was useless to distress the pony more by going any farther. It 
w as then six o’clock, and he had to be in Oxford, which was 
twenty-five miles off, by nine o’clock, to w in his match, and 
some of the bystanders offered to bet a hundred to one, in 
the hearing of the defendant, that the pony did not perform 
it. The defendant said he thought he could do it now he 
had got a leader, and it w 7 as witness’s opinion that the pony 
w 7 ould not have moved if he had not been dragged off by the 
other horse. 
George Smith, one of the constables of the society, proved 
that he served the summons to attend the bench upon the 
defendant, and when he did so the defendant told him the 
summons w 7 as no good to him, and he might take it back t 
those w T ho had sent him with it ; at the same time makin 
use of very filthy observations. * 
