ALLEGED SHE STEALING.
TIM ABU SETTLER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
[ter press association.]
Timaru, Aug. 29.
Daniel Sargent, a settler on the Brothers Downs, near Cricklewood, was charged at the Magistrate’s Court today with stealing six sheep belonging to a new neighbour, Mr. F. W. Wain, on different dates from May to August. Their farms adjoin, and Wain stated that he missed 15 sheep previously. On thc 17th instant he was working in one of his paddocks next the accused’s farm, and came across several paunches and heads, some of them freshly killed, and near to the boundary fence a temporary gallows where some sheep hail been killed, and paunches lying about on both sides of the fence, and on the accused’s side a skin bearing witness's brand and earmark. Meeting the accused that day the latter offered to pay for any sheep missing. When a constable went up some of the complainant’s skins were produced by the accused at his house. He was committed for trial and admitted to bail in bonds of £l5O, which were forthcoming.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 216, 30 August 1911, Page 6
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