A SINGULAR CASE
'"♦ ' ' “ Lnvbbcargill, August 9 A singular case wrs heard in the Police Court to-day, when an old man, named William Martin, a farmer at Olenamika, waa charged with killing two horses, the property of an adjoining settler, named William Patton by poisoning them with phosphorised oats. The principal evi dance against the aosused waa given by members of his own family. Trouble appears to have arised through the old man objecting to his daughter s marrlagewith Patton, and ho w «s recently fined for striking her in the face. While her father was In goal on remand, she married Patton and did not give evidence •gainst her father on the- more serious charge, Martin wasdulyoommlttedfortrfal t In the Supremo Court Ball was allowed t In two sureties of £l5O each and him- i •elf in £3CO. a
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1310, 9 August 1886, Page 3
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139A SINGULAR CASE Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1310, 9 August 1886, Page 3
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