| Show HORSE hokse PRISONER NER FOR SIX YEARS SET AT LIBERTY owner locked animal up after it dragged him across field elue springs s neb keb by reason ot of the interposition of the state humane society a pardon has been issued by john childress a farmer living a mile south of this town to a nine year old dapple gray horse that the owner ad tails falls he has had in confinement for six years in punishment for having bolted and run away mille lille hitched to a disk plow six years ago childress was caught in ili the lines and dragged for a consider considerable alle distance the ease case one of the strangest in the history of the society was brought to the attention of officers recently by neighbors of Chill chilldress ress who said lie had one horse lie never let out of his barn childress lives on a A A Y 4 K aar one horse he never let out of his HI barn ter section of good land only a part of it cultivated and has a reputation as an eccentric angry at horse horsa ne readily admitted to the officers he be was so angered over the action of the horse in drag dragging him across the plowed field that lie he took it at once to the barn tied it up and kept it there for the past six years never having allowed it outside of the building ile he said lie he had fed the animal regularly but that habing once determined on its punishment lie he refused to change his mind the officers say although the horse lias has the bony framework to carry pounds of weight wei glit its body has wasted away until it weighs only 1000 pounds and looks like a horse of twenty five childress agreed it if no do prosecution was had that lie he would trade or sell the animal within the next two weeks |
