A MANIA FoR HORSE STEALING.
Gi._b.rhe, February 19. .""Tho most e\.ra(>rdinarv case I haye. over had to do with,"" was the opiiv.on given by the Magistrate today regarding the offences of a Maori youth named Rawiri Grant, who has a mania for Stealing horses. He was recently e.n'victed at Tolago, and is awaiting sentence on several charges of theft and horse stealing (including the removal of race horses). Today he pleaded guilty to a couple more charges of horse stealing, also to a charge of housebreaking, being committed to the Supreme Court at Auckland for sentence. His Worship remarked that the conduct of the accused was most extraordinary. He evidently had a Interna for stealing, particularly horses. His conduct was so strange and foolhardy that he (the Magistrate) had some doubt whether the prisoner was in a right state of mind. However, the authorities at Audi, land w.Uld have accused examined if they thought it necessary.
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Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11558, 20 February 1906, Page 4
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156A MANIA FoR HORSE STEALING. Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11558, 20 February 1906, Page 4
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