The Revenge of the Clipped Horses

The case of Charles Iddings, charged with malicious mischief in disfiguring a horse belonging to Herbert G. Upper, was heard in court yesterday. Iddings, who lives near O'Brien, was arrested last November in company with Charles Petty and Thomas Iddings, charged with having committed the act from a spirit of wantonness and diabolical revenge. At the preliminary hearing, it was shown that Mr. Upper, who owns a place near O'Brien, had fenced up a private way across his land and had posted notices warning the public not to trespass. This seems to have incensed the neighborhood and resulted in the disfigurement of his horses. Upper went to his farm one day to find that his horses, one of them a fine, blooded animal which had been brought to this state from Ontario, had been shorn of their sweeping tails and glossy manes by some miscreants who, in blind, senseless hatred of him, had applied the shears to the poor beasts. He investigated and, believing the above-named parties to be guilty, swore out a warrant for their arrest.