Show WATSON STABLEMAN I 1 UP FOR CRUELTY i there I 1 is s no question about J joe 0 gurr burrs s horse having been se severely ere ly beaten but the question still unset tied Is who did the beating mr gurr accused thomas rowe roine stable man mall for the american asphaltum co at watson utah it seems that the company feeds its animals somewhat lavishly and teamsters hae been in the habit of turning their horses loose to rustle their feed with ith the result that the Comp company anys s animals liane hae been robbed and at times their stables broken into by ma I 1 stock which mr air rowe rome in his caps capa city of stable stableman nian has repeat repeatedly edi driven away anay on christmas morning joseph gurr who was mas camped at watson found one of ills his horses cruelly beaten vp up and dellwing del delt leing eing that roie roe lid did it hid had him arrested and brought to trial the defendent took change of enle and the case was A as tried in III vernal on january ath the ste produced one witness who 1110 claimed to hae seen rowe in the alt act of beating the horse and who at al st ao testified that he had seen the stable wall braken b the horse in its struggles to escape one other witness also testified to having heard a commotion during tile the night ana to having been the broken stable the defense ho however veer produced thre witnesses illnesses who testified that rowe rone had been m with ith them in the bunk house bioni the time the stock were cared for on the night of the twenty fourth to a late hour on christmas morning and that it was therefore impossible for him to perform the outrage the company carpenter testified that the stables were ere in good condition on the in question and rose rone I 1 him I 1 im self told a straight story which litch N could not be shaken ile he was nas discharged disch arged by tile the jury jur |