STORY GIVEN IN COURT
SHEEP KNOCKED HIM DOWN FINE FOR ATTEMPTED THEFT (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WIIAKATAXE, Friday Claude Sydney Wells, a farmer, of Walnut, claimed to be the victim of unfortunate circumstances in that he was knocked down, or attacked by a stampeding sheep and so was discov:.’ic owner, lie pleaded not guilty to «• harges of thpft and attempted theft •: a sheep valued at £2, brought • gainst him before Judge J. Harvey, of I he Native Land Court, and Mr C. A. Brabant, J.P., at W'hakalane. The theft charge was withdrawn and Wells convicted and fined £3 in default 14 days’ imprisonment, for attempted theft. In evidence John Melville stated he was cycling on Hill Road to his home, when he heard a sheep grunt and flashed jiis Jamp over the fence, when lie saw a sheep on the ground and' Wells holding it. Melville said: What’s going on here?” Wells replied: “Just getting a bit of mutton” Wells said he went into the paddock and was hanging on to the fence when the sheep started to move along the fence and knocked him down, lie was struggling to get up when Melville came along.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20887, 19 August 1939, Page 11
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