SHEEP-STEALING CASE
[Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND, March 31. At the Police Court, Milton M’Millan, aged thirty-five, a farmer, of Mangatawhiri, near Pokcno, was charged with the theft of eleven sheep, valued at £l3 ss, the property of a neighbouring farmer, Alexander Bell, Evidence was 1 to the effect that accused removed eleven stray sheep from a farm in the district, explaining that throe of them were his, a number of sheep sold for accused at auction included two with Boll's earmark and the police discovered seven others on accused’s farm. Accused pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial, bail being fixed at £2OO | On a charge of having been) in possession of a sheepskin from which the ears had been removed, accused was remanded for a week.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3597, 1 April 1924, Page 5
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