THE TANTANOOLA TIGER.
SHEEP CONFISCATION.
SIX YEARS' HARD LABOR.
ADELAIDE, April 10.
Edmondson, the notorious sheep, thief of Tantanoola, has been sentenced to six years' hard labor for killing 76 sheep with intent to steal.
At the hearing of the charge against Edmondson on January 18th, in connection with the Tantanoola sheepstealing, a witness deposed that he waa induced to join the accused by the statement that he could make £4 or £5 daily. Under the pretext of trap-r----ping rabbits Edmondson' shot sheep belonging to flocks in the vicinity, and witness skinned them. The skina were consigned to Adelaide. At other times they put up temporary yards, ran in sheep, and killed them ill batches. The practice had been going, on since August last* .
Edmondson was committed for trial on a charge of killing 76 sheep with intent to steal
The witness who gave evidence against him added that Edmondson told him the yards has been discovered, and if witness did not keep his mouth shut he would blow his brains out. '
The police evidence -was to the effect that Edmondson denied stealing and threatened to kill his accuser.
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Northern Advocate, 11 April 1911, Page 5
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189THE TANTANOOLA TIGER. Northern Advocate, 11 April 1911, Page 5
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