YOUTHFUL DUNEDIN HORSESTEALERS. RUN TO EARIH AT TIMARU. Timaru, June 14,
The police have secured two >oung men — John Fmdlay and Wm. Scobie — from Dunedin who have committed a series of thefts of horses. They left Dunedin last i month for Christchurch on foot. At Palmeiston they stole two horses and out6t from a stable, and rode them to Waimate, where they turned the horses adi-ut. They then walked to Pareora, en^ tered a house and took a watch and chair and food, and went to To.ani V Alley where they stole two horses, saddles, and bridles, and rode to Geraldine, where they impounded one horse, and took 12s for '' driving" fees. They left Geraldine with two fresh horses— draughts — which they sold the next day to a farmer af RaDgitata, and afterwaids ransacked his house. They returned to Geraldine, and sold a third horse find saddlery. Findliy was captured in Timaru as ha w.s preparing to leavo by the steamer, aud j Scobio near Winchester, where he tried to se'l some m .re stolen saddlery.
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North Otago Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 8918, 15 June 1897, Page 3
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176YOUTHFUL DUNEDIN HORSESTEALERS. RUN TO EARIH AT TIMARU. Timaru, June 14, North Otago Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 8918, 15 June 1897, Page 3
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