Horse- and Cattle-Stealing.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 11, 1 June 1892, Page 87

Horse- and Cattle-Stealing.

Danevirkh.— flenry Muller is charged on warrant with having, on iipril Ust, stolen a mare, value £2O, the proparty of)/fed win l)Mn : recovered. Offender is a German, sper/is. ifivglialwfairly works at saw-mills, and breaks hor f(M, aboutwwGity-tdven years of age, sft. 7in. high, stout buM, fresh fair moustache only ; dressed in dark gjotnes and (/hard-felt hat. He sold the mare on the above date to George Newitt, who has possession of it, and was last heard of at Palmerston North on the 20th April.

Hunterville. —A man, name unknown, is charged with the larceny, between 3 p.m. on the Ist and 9 a.m. on the 2nd ultimo, at Karioi, Murimotu, of a gelding, value £2O; the property of Tahana. Offender is twenty or twenty-one years of age, about sft. Oin. 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 ultimo, and is supposed to have gone to Bulls or Marton. He rode a young grey diorse, 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 ultimo, 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,

Kamo. —Arthur Hanson reports stolen at Ngunguru, about / the 25th April last, a dark-chestnut horse, aged, about 15 hands high, white stockings on hind feet, running up past white star on forehead, roach-backed, potbellied, islight cataract over one eye, unbranded; value £5. (T Suspicion attached to Charles Lynn, a bush-lJmnJ|boutthirtj’-five years of age, sft. llin. high, stout build, Jpair <|omplexion, light moustache only, married. Supposed / 8 to be working in the bush at Kaiwaka, near the Hakara. Suspect was seen riding a horse answering the above description.

Methven. —John Deans, Riccarton, reports stolen from Waimarama Station, between the 30th March and 2nd April last, seventy breeding ewes, Lincoln and Southdown cross, 4- and 8-toothed, branded JD in red on shoulder, tips off near ears, and notched at points and bottoms of off ears ; value 17s. each. May have been driven away with mobs going south.

" Wyndham. —Donald Stalker, Earndale, reports missing, aikh believed to have been stolen, from Wyndham Valley, on (frill 14th or 15th ultimo, nine cross-bred heifers, three years \ 1«, all supposed to be in calf, horse-shoe brand on rumps; Walue £3 each.

i/ (See Police Gazette, 1892, page 18). A Re Alexander Gillies, for horse-stealing and disobeying an * order/pr tlie support of his son (page 17): This offender was vseimfaffew weeks ago at the Makaraka Hotel, Poverty Bay, add'ic is thought the licensee (Mr. Curry) knows his where- / ajbouts. He is said to be working for a Mr. Ormond.