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HORSE TRIED FOR TREASON 1 r The following tale, whose authenticity is 3 not guaranteed, is reprinted from "The Horse 2 in Myth and Fable," by Oldfield Honey, recently . published in England : "A son of Sunstar was in Russia at the 5 time of the Bolshevik outbreak and, having learned that this horse won a cup presented 1 by the late czar, the Bolsheviks had the horse 2 tried by court martial and shot it, after sentencing the horse to death for having had 1 dealings with the enemy. "