Children of George and Mary Ann Baggs

CRULETY AT HEADLEY.—Frederick Herbert was charged with cruelty to a horse by working it whilst in an unfit state at Headley on April 13th, and William Baggs with causing the horse to [be] so worked at said time and place.—P.C. Alfred Charles Clark, stationed at Whitehill, said: At 11.30 a.m., on April 13th, I was on duty on the highway leading from Sleaford to Lindford when I saw defendant driving a chestnut horse attached to a cart loaded with a ton of coal. The horse appeared tender on the withers. I stopped and examined it, and found a raw wound on the near shoulder, the size of a shilling; and two larger sores on the back under the pad, each about the size of half-a-crown. The lining of the pad was thickly caked with dried blood and matter. The horse kicked and plunged when the hand was placed on him. I said to Herbert "How long has the shoulder been sore?" He relied, "I did not know it was sore; the back has been like it some time." I then said to him, "ls Mr. Baggs aware of this?" Defendant replied, "My master saw the horse this morning before I started." I told him to take the horse out and unharness it.—Inspector Ward, S.P.C.A., said: In company with P.C. Englefield I visited defendant’s stables at Bentley. I saw defendant Herbert, who produced the horse for my inspection. It was in fair condition. There was an old wound on the near shoulder, and two larger wounds on the offside of the back. The withers were very tender, and the horse very humoral. The horse was unfit to be worked, and work would cause great pain. On April 19th I saw the two defendants together at the stables, Bentley, when Herbert replied, "Mr. Baggs sent me out with the horse. He knew its back was bad, but he did not tell me not to work it." Baggs said, "I have had the horse bad a week. I have had great trouble with it, but the wounds appeared to be dry when I sent him out that morning. I was very busy that day or I would not have sent him out. I will get rid of him."—The Bench discharged the driver Herbert, and fined the master, Baggs, 15s., including costs.

William Baggs, of Farnham, Surrey, who was cycling in the neighbourhood, having been on a visit to Wareham, said that as he was going up Constitution Hill at about eight o'clock on Tuesday morning he saw a man lying by the side of the road. He got off his machine and examined the body, which was warm, though life was extinct. It was evident that the man had been carrying hay, as he had a prong on his shoulder, and the hay, about ten or twelve pounds, was on his back. He had evidently fallen backwards. He at once gave information to the police at Branksome.

PROPERTY SALE.—Messrs. Edwin Fear and Walker, of Winchester and Newbury, notify the sale this week of Lot 2 of the Wrecclesham Estate, comprising Holt Pound Cottage, in the parishes of Binstead and Farnham, in the occupation partly of Mr. William Baggs, partly of Mr. Norman Parratt—an excellent small holding with the necessary farm buildings and 18a. 0r. 34p. of rich meadow land.