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AFTERMATH OF MARS CASSIDY CASE. C. R. Anderson Dismissed t y Magistrate on Charje of Cruelty to Animals — Rows Inspects Peter Pan. Lexhagton, Ky.. May lL. — At a hearing yeserday morning before Magistrate W. J. Ahern. no evidence was introduced to prove conclusively that the horse Mars Cassidy had been drugged and therefore C. 11. Anderson was dismissed of the Charge of cruelty to animals, preferred by the Payette County Humane Society, the officers of which had neglected to have Dr. W. B. Coover, the attending veterinarian summoned. An effort was made to locate him after th" trial began, but he was out in the country-ir. ,1. noes T. Shannon, Iaddoek Judge James P. Boas, Tr.nk Superintendent Lon McCarthy, executive officer of the Humane Society, testified that the horse appeared to he nervous and unduly excited before th" race and Ross testified that he anal in a distressed condition after the race, but none was abb1 to swear that his condition was due to drugs. A. K. Macomber of California, owner of the most extensive racing stable in America at the present time, yesterday was made defendant in two suits for back taxes filed by Walton is. ltyars. of I.uisville. state revenue agent. James Howe, trainer of the Harry Payee Whitney horses, cause over from Louisville yesterday morning aad spent the day inspecting th" stallion Petac Paa, twenty-two hreadaaafua and ten foals belonging to his employer at the Thornton Moore farm. He also visited the six hundred acre farm Mr. Whitney recently purchased from the James B. Haggin estate. Frank J. Nolan is visiting the bluegrass farni3.
