CHARGE OF POISONING A HORSE.
Auckland, June 12. At tho Supreme Court, John Solomon Taylor was to-day tried for the second time on a charge of poisoninga horse at Hamilton. The jury disagreed at the first trial. Tho evidence was that the accused, who lived with the owner of the hors*, went to a chemist's shop, when he enquired of the assistant bow much arsenic it would take to k:.cck over a horse. The same evening he went to another chemist's shop and nuri chased four ounces of poison. The horse died the next day, as was found afterwards, from arsenical poisoning. Accused stated he purchased the poison to kill rats. He was foun:: guilty, and sentenced to nine months imprisonment.
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Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11960, 13 June 1907, Page 3
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121CHARGE OF POISONING A HORSE. Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11960, 13 June 1907, Page 3
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