ALLEGED HORSE THIEVES.

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15360, 8 October 1923, Page 5

ALLEGED HORSE THIEVES.

ARRESTED BY POLICE.

14 ANIMALS RECOVERED. NUMEROUS CHARGES PENDING. (By Telegraph.—Special to Times.) TE AWAMUTU, Monday. During the last month a large number of horses have been reported missing from the Pukekohe district, and police investigations have been proceeding.

On Friday Constables Doyle and Rushton followed a mob proceeding southward. They went to Kihikihi, Kawhla, Ngahape, and To Kuiti, where they gained sufficient information to warrant a visit to a bush country farm at the back of Otorohanga. They watched the farm late at night on Friday, and discovered some horses hidden in the bush. They guarded them all night, and at • daylight on Saturday identified some as identical with those reported stolen. The (owners of the farm had got away, so following clues the police arrested a young man named McGilvray, at Pio Pio, who was making for Taranaki. On Sunday morning at 3 o'clock the police paid a surprise visit to the bush farm, and there arrested a man named Ludwig, who had returned out of hiding. Fourteen horses now in possession of the police at Te Awamutu have been identified as the property of different settlers in the Pukekohe district. The police are still following up in an endeavour to get other missing horses.

Before the Court this morning the accused were remanded to Auckland on October 16, when numerous other charges will be preferred against them.