Horse- and Cattle-Stealing.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume X, Issue 9, 28 April 1886, Page 79

Horse- and Cattle-Stealing.

Supposed stolen on the 26th or 27th ultimo, at Waitetuna, near Raglan, a four-tooth long-wool sheep; the property of William Parsons Cogswell; value 10s. It is supposed that the sheep was killed and the carcase carried away.

(See Police Gazette, 1886, page 30.) The horse, the property of Clinton Attwood, supposed stolen from a paddock at Hawera, has been recovered.

C. H. RuTHViNis charged, on warrant issued by the Kawakawa Bench, with stealing, about the 22nd February last, from Whangai, a chesnut gelding, white face, hind fetlocks white, branded D on near shoulder ; the property of Richard Earrer ; value £ls. Identifiable. Description: English, a watchmaker, about twenty-eight years of age, sft. 6Jin. high, stout build, fair complexion, fair hair, very little if any hair on face except moustache ; wore dark clothes. He went towards Wangaioa. He travels through the country districts repairing clocks and watches.

Supposed stolen on the 6th or 7th instant, from a paddock at Otaki, a bay mare, aged, hack-breed, 141 hands high ; branded RA on off shoulder, star on forehead; the property of John O’Brien ; value £B. Identifiable.