Horse- and Cattle-Stealing.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 10, 18 May 1892, Page 80

Horse- and Cattle-Stealing.

Danevirkflt— benry Muller is charged on warrant with having, on jultimo, stolen a mare, value £2O, the property ofJEdwin Dean ; Offender is a German, well, wfcrel at sawmills, and breaks lioraefcfabout twen ty-'^fven'years of age, sft. 7in. high, stout buinV, iresh qomprexiOH, fair moustache only ; dressed in dark cJulies, and hard-felt hat. He sold the mare on the above date to George Newjtt, who has possession of it, and was last heard of at Palmerston North on the 20th ultimo.

(See Police Gazette, 1892, page 70.) Christchurch. —John Dillon’s mare has been found

Hunterville. —A man, name unknown, is charged with the Jt larceny, between 3 p.m. on the Ist and 9 a.m. on the 2nd instant, at Karioi, Murimotu, of a gelding, value £2O ; the property of Tahana. Offender is twenty or twenty-one years of age, about sft. 6in. high, fair complexion, fair hair and small moustache, slight build, jockey appearance; wore a dark coat and hard black-felt hat. Was seen riding the stolen animal through Hunterville on the 3rd instant, and is supposed to have gone to Bulls or Marton. He rode a young grey horse, about 15 hands high (believed to be a stolen one), to Karioi, and left it in a paddock there. He said he came from Cambridge, Waikato. A warrant for his arrest has since been issued by the Wanganui Bench. Further reports state that Tahana’s gelding has been recovered, it having been sold at Halcombe, on the 4th instant, by a man answering offender’s description. He gave a receipt in the name of “James McKennon” or “McKenna,” and had a large red-and-grey-flowered portmanteau and flour-bag swag. His description also agrees with that of Frank G. D. Pittock, alias William Pittock, vide Police Gazette, 1891, page 70, and 1892, pages 32 and 40.

(See Police Gazette, 1892, page 70.)

Cambridge. —Tauriki, and Wiremu te Whitu, alias Paddy Regan, charged with stealing horses belonging to Tairi te Oriori and Ani Waata, have been arrested by Constables Lowther and Brennan, Waikato Police, and discharged.

(See Police Gazette, 1891, page 205.) Rotorua. —Timothy Cahill’s gelding has been found