ALLEGED THEFT OF A TROTTING MARE.
[by *et«oitAMii«*f ASSOfctAf Chmstchttech, Friday. At the Police Court to-day, Reginald Post, alias Richard Francis, was committed for trial on a chfiTge of the theft of the trotting mare Silver Sash. Post sold th« ttiari> for £35 to Mr. W. L. Mitchell on Ifdvenifeer 18 last, and next morning the mare was idissittg from Springfield stables. Post .trai arrested in Hobart, where it is alleged he sold the mare to a man named king for £60. Shortly after his arrest Post told Detective Fahey that, failing to get Mitchell's cheque cashed, he had returned it to turn, and the mare had been found feeding on the road outside his (Post's) mother's place at PrebbletOn on the following morning"! Evidence Was given that the licensee of the Racecourse Hotel at .Ric<!ar» ton paid Post £35 on Mitchell's behalf on November 17.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12609, 25 June 1904, Page 5
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