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He rode west, like an old-fashioned cowboy, before police arrested a 63-year-old man on suspicion of public intoxication.

John Edward Battles was “very unsteady on his feet and having to lean on his horse so as not to fall over,” according to an arrest report. He was arrested after 11 p.m. Saturday.

“We saw a horse, but it was kind of late,” Gaicnto Sartuche, 83, said, who lives near the intersection of Liberty and Water streets. Sartuche told his son the man riding down the middle of the street looked like a cowboy.

“He didn’t bother anybody,” Sartuche said.

He’s lived in the area for about 40 years, and said people used to ride horses through the neighborhood more often.

But now a man riding a grey horse down the road late at night is an oddity, he said.

Battles told officers he drank two beers, according to the police report.

A friend took the horse home.