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OlilTUAllY. 
HAMMERSMITH. 
JiARBAROUS CRUELTY TO A COW. 
AVilliam !Moss was charged with having gouged out the eye of a cow. 
Tlie case had been adjourned for tlie attendance of a veterinary surgeon. 
The prisoner, while trying to drive a cow tlirougli some water, had 
beaten the animal with a stick over the head, and had pulled out its eye 
with his finger and thumb, and then placed it back again. 
The Veterinary Surgeon thought tliat the eye had not been gouged out, 
but it had been seriously injured, and the animal would not see again 
■with it. 
Mr. Dayman ordered the prisoner to be imprisoned for one month, 
with hard labour. 
SHOCKING BRUTALITY. 
Thomas Endicott, a dealer in dead horses, was charged with brutally 
ill-treating a horse. 
Mr. Willesford appeared for the Society fur the Prevention of Cruelty 
to Animals. 
2Ir. II. S. Mallelt stated, that on the day in question he w'.as on South- 
ernhay, and saw the defendant and another man dragging along a horse, 
which only had two legs that It could walk on. The left fore leg was 
very much swollen, and had on it a large wound, which had been pow¬ 
dered to conceal it. The other leg was also much swollen. Defemlant was 
whipping the horse, and another man was dragging it along. The men 
managed to get the horse as far as the fly-stand in Magdalen Street, where 
the horse stopped, and they could not get it to go any further. The men 
then got a chain and put it around the horse’s hind quarters, and dragged 
it into the ‘Valiant Soldier’ inn stables. Defendant then took a pocket- 
knife, and dug it into the horse’s breast six or seven times, and then tore 
the flesh abro.ad Avith his hand. The horse suffered for fifteen minutes, 
and then died. He considered that defendant was intoxicated. 
The Rev. Henry Wright corroborated last witness’s statement. 
Defendant said he was very sorry for what he had done, and OAvned 
that he had acted cruelly. 
The Bench said they considered this a most disgraceful case, and that 
they should not be doing their duty Avere they not to punish the prisoner 
severely. The sentence of the Court on him Avould be to be imprisoned, 
with hard labour, for three months.— Exeter Police Court. 
OBITUARY. 
Among the officers whose deaths are officially reported at 
the AVar Office since the 1st of August tve perceive the name 
of M. Poett, AI.R.C.A^.S.j Army Staff Corps. Ilis diploma 
hears date December 4th^ 1832^ London. 
