Croydon Advertiser and East Surrey Reporter – Saturday 13 August 1910

STRAYING ANIMALS

-At the Croydon County Bench on Saturday, before the Chairman (Ald. R. V. Barrow), Mr. T. E. Stephens. Mr. E. Densham, Capt. A. H. N. Kemmis, Mr. E. Byron, and Mr. E. W. Grimwade, appeared James Crutch, 1, Half Acre-row, Mitcham. He had allowed his horse to stray on the highway. He said he was out of work and had no food for it, so turned it out. Being the first time the Bench said “Excused”.

—The ass and horse of Alfred Deacon, 7, Seaton-road, Mitcham, also went astray, and he had “nothing to say”. The police said the members of defendant’s family took ownership in turns so as to save the summonses. Fined 2s. 6d. and costs.

—Frank Jelly, 16a, Seaton-road, Mitcham, for allowing two horses and a donkey stray at Mitcham, was fined 7s. 6d. and costs.