ALLEGED THEFT OF SHEEP.
BROTHERS BEFORE COURT. JURY ACQUITS ONE MAN. [by TKr,i:un.u'ir. —mess association.] NAI'IEB, Wednesday. Two brothers, Reuben Harold Ellison and Edwin Charles Ellison, wero jointly indicted in the Supreme Court at Napier to-day before Mr. Justice Heed on six charges of theft of sheep and turkeys, Edwin Charles Ellison was charged on five counts of receiving sheep, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. Pleas of guilty to the majority of tlio charges wero entered by Reuben Ellison, the remainder being withdrawn. lie was remanded for sentence. Pleas of not guilty were entered by Edwin Charles Ellison, who was represented by Messrs. F. 11. Cooper and A. E. Lawry. The Crown prosecutor, Mr. H. B. Lusk, conducted tiio caso for the Grown. Evidence, for the .prosecution was given by neighbours of accused at Makarctu, who had noticed shortages in their flocks, and who found some of their sheep in the Ellisons' woolshcd on June 7. Tho jury after a retirement of an hour and a-quarter returned a verdict of not guilty on all tlx? charges. Tho Crown yesterday charged Edwin Charles Ellison with the theft of 21 sheep, valued at £lB 10s, the property of Edward Henry Thompson, and alternatively with receiving the sheep knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. The Crown evidence went to show that 19 of tho sheep were found in a woolshed on accused's property, bearing Thompson's earmark, but the brand of accused's brother, who was joint administrator with accused of the estato. The skins of two further sheep were found bearing tho earmark of Thompson. The defence was that accused knew littlo about farming, having been engaged with his brother Reuben, who had been on the place all his life, only since Oct.o ber last. Reuben, who had pleaded guilty to tho same charge in the Lower Court, did all the managing of the property, and accused said he was not aware that sheep belonging to Thompson wero on tho property. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20642, 14 August 1930, Page 14
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330ALLEGED THEFT OF SHEEP. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20642, 14 August 1930, Page 14
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