A STOLEN HORSE.
POLICE CANNOT PROSECUTE
[BT TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Christchtjrch, Saturday. A somewhat peculiar feature of the law is disclosed by the recent theft of the well-known trotting horse Prince Warbeck from a .stable in Yaldhurst. It is believed that the persons who took the horse are known, but the police cannot charge them with tho crime, because they did not offer it for sale. The theft of a horse, apparently, is not a theft in the eyes of tho law until it is offered for Kile, and the only satisfaction the owner can obtain is by a civil action on account of any monetary loss 'he lias suffered.
" A man may take a horse and ride from here to Limerick on it," Chief Detective Bishop said to-day, " and you can do nothing to him from a criminal point of view as long as he is shrewd enough not to sell it, and the. desirability of civil action depends on whether the man who appropriates the horse is worth powder and shot."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14701, 19 June 1911, Page 8
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173A STOLEN HORSE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14701, 19 June 1911, Page 8
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