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20

Feb
2017

In On This Day

By Nicola Gauld

On This Day, 20 February 1917

On 20, Feb 2017 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld

Birmingham Daily Post

Tuesday 20 February 1917

DUDLEY MAN’S CRUELTY TO A HORSE

At Dudley Police Court, yesterday, John Hobbs (56), 53, Birmingham Street, was fined £4, and ordered to pay the veterinary surgeon’s fee of a guinea, for cruelty to a horse by working it while suffering from sores on the shoulders which were rubbed by the collar. It was stated that he had been previously fined 40s. for cruelty to the same horse.