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Show TEAMSTER FiKED FOR CRUELTY TO HORSES Joseph Hobbeehaw. a teamster employed em-ployed until August 1 by the Martin Coal company, waa found guilty In police court yesterday of cruelty to animals and waa fined tt by Judge J. M. Bowman. The testimony upon which Hobbeehaw waa convicted waa given by Mr. Casat-mar Casat-mar Habosky e 1141 South Seventh East street, who told her story clearly end convincingly. con-vincingly. Bhe eald 'Hobbeehaw waa hauling haul-ing a load of cinders and the wagon wheel became mired. The driver laahed the horse cruelly with a heavy "black-snake" "black-snake" whip. The shoulders of the boreee were badly galled. ...... Hoboeshaw admitted that the shoulders shoul-ders of the horses were sore, and admitted ad-mitted also that he had used the whip, but denied that he had used It with extreme ex-treme cruelty. - ... , , . Hobbeehaw pleaded for leniency on behalf be-half of his family. The court Imposed a fine of tt and gave Hobbeehaw until this morning to pay. The rases of P. H. Oogan manager, and John Malta, a teamster, of the Independent Independ-ent Ice company, charged with cruelty to animals was continued until September 2 at the. request of Oogan. whose attorney at-torney la out of the city and wlU not return for at least two weeks. |