A STOLEN SHEEP.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 83, 10 April 1922, Page 9

A STOLEN SHEEP.

SKINNED UN A BEDROOM.

At the Cambridge Police Court on Saturday, Harold David Prier, on a charge of stealing a sheep at Te Miro on March loth, pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Auckland Supreme Court for sentence, bail being allowed in self £100 and one surety of £100. The evidence showed that Prier, who was a farm employee at Te Miro (near Cambridge), on the date mentioned, at the completion of milking, secured the loan of a horse and gig from his employer, and with the domestic help (a young girl) drove to a farm in the same district. He pulled up near the farm leaving the girl to hold the horse. Prier then continued his jotjrney on foot, returning with a sheep, which he had stolen from Mr. De Latour's farm and had killed. A return was made to the employer's farm, and in his own room Prier skinned the sheep, the girl holding* a candle while the accused carried out this operation. Prier later informed his employer that he had taken the animal from Mr. de Latour's farm, and he eventually took tihe carcase and skin into an adjacent bush. Here discovery was made by the owner who recognised the earmarks and brand on the skin. He valued the sheep at 15/. A number of witnesses were called. Detective J. UjSweeney prosecuting.