A Curious Case.
(BY TELEGRAPH.) Tijiabu, May 23. The District Court was occupied most of the day over a curious case. Two men were driving along the country road and left their vehicle on the roadside for a few minutes. On starting again they missed the whip which was left on the seat. A hawker's van had passed in the meantime and they suspected that the hawker took the whip. They overtook him and demanded ifc when he said that he knew nothing of it. One of the men (Mulhern, a publican at Temuka, and an ex-policeman) pretended to be a police officer and assaulted the hawker and took him into custody on a charge of stealing 1 the whip and took him to the police station, four miles off, to give him in charge. The constable on the station searched the van and finding no whip k* the hawker go. The whip was found on the road the men had traversed. Botn men denied plaintiffs story, but this vr& corroborated at several poinfcsjjjand the jury gave him LIOO for fate 6 arrest.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 5953, 24 May 1894, Page 2
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183A Curious Case. Oamaru Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 5953, 24 May 1894, Page 2
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