MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 2956, 9 August 1872, Page 3

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Dav. (Before bis Worship the Mayor ami Dr. Harding, J.P.) DRUNKENNESS. Joseph Richardson, James Long, and William Blake were each lined ss. Abraham Pusasnaski was discharged with a caution. HORSE-STEALING. George Sinclair was charged with stealing a horse, valued at L2O, the property of Thomas Harrison, Tomahawk. The facts of the case shortly stated are these:—On July 25. ’7lHarrison owned a horse, which was then running in his paddock at Tomahawk, but the following day it was missing. He did not see it again until about two months ago, when ho saw it in Dunedin in possession of a Mr Hugh Fraser, from whom he recovered it by suit at law. The prisoner had been in the service of Mr N. J. B. Macgregor, Silverstream, and a little bef Christmas that gentleman saw the horse, the subject of the enquiry, in his possession. He asked Sinclair how he got the horse, and the reply made was that he was going to take it to the owner at Halfway Bush. Mr Macgregor then told him to leave the horse where it was, and send the owner for it. On the 9th of December last prisoner sold the horse to Mr A. Smith, livery-stable keeper, for L 5, and the latter sold it to an expressman, the animal afterwards finding its way into Mr Fraser’s hands Mr Harrison swore positively that the horse outside the court was bis, and Mr Macgregor was equally distinct that it was the one he saw' in prisoner’s possession on his farm. Mr Stout, who appeared for the prisoner, submitted that there was no case, 'and cited Mr Justice Maule’s rain;; in Fe ina v. Cooper, where that judge directed acquittal of the prisoner because the only evidence against him was, that the horse alleged to have been stolen was not traced to his possession until six months after the robbery. The Bench thought a prima facie case had been made out. and committed the prisoner for trial, allowing bail himself in LIOO, and two sureties of LSO each.

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