A HORSE TRANSACTION.
PRESS ASSOCIATION. INVERCARGILL, June 22. Another stage of a series of complicated horse transactions was reached to-day, Mr R. J. H. Hardinge being committed for trial on a charge of forging a receipt for .£62 10s, between Wanganui and Winton, and with stealing ,£37 10s, the moneys of H. P. Rasmussen. The prosecutions havo arisen out of the desire of Rasmussen (who is constable at Wiuton) to possess a racehorse. lie had commissioned accused to go North and buy, giving him money to do so. Tho allegations are that Hardinge bought a filly and a colt at Wanganui, brought them South, and said ho had given a certain m for the colt, for which ho gave Rasmussen’s receipt, in the name of Mrs Rasmussen. Witnesses from Wanganui denied that ho had riven such a receipt, or stated that the price paid for tho horse was as stated in the receipt. Rasmussen told accused that he believed the receipt was in his own handwriting, and ho would see the bottom of it. A receipt for ,£lO, signed "W. Phillips,” was found in accused’s possession. Accused reserved his defence.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5310, 23 June 1904, Page 6
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190A HORSE TRANSACTION. New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5310, 23 June 1904, Page 6
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