Feilding R.M. Court

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 39, 3 April 1884, Page 2

Feilding R.M. Court

THISDAYi 1 ■■'; -^ . (Before D. H. Macathur and J. H. Fry, J.Ps. • HOBS^-STKAMNO. Thomas Hackett was charged with hdrse-st'e-aling! ' : ■• Mr Hector Booth was sworn as inter* preter for the Maori witness. .Matawha, a native,. d«pe*ed that he resided at Knkariki ; was the owner of a bay fijly w>th a white face, about eighteen months oil ; lost it about ''five months ago ; searched for it three times ; did not find it; found the mother';' thought perhaps the filly was dead, it was' to small; went to the prisoner's place; there were other persons with witness, Wiari and Wireniu; saw the horse tied up there, close to the house ; the horse he saw there " was the one"now outside the Courthouse, which witness identified as his property ; spoke to a woman at the house (Mrs ! Hackett was here cnlled into- Court, and identified by the witness) ; asked her ' who' Che house belonged to,; she" said it belonged to her; asked her who the horse 1 belonged to; she said she did not know; »he told told witness to untie the h»rse, which he did, i ot do as he. want ed to see. the man ; himself Vndtwp.pthers, then. , went to? Halcombetdwn ; wlien he got "to town, saw a man. named Nelson ; saw the filly, on that' 'day; -about' an hour after the horse came to witness on the road ; it was ■'on'the road by itself ; no one wan driving, "it; rwheirh'e";drrif c it to his abode he saw a; brand on the" left shoulder like H ; when 1 the fi!ly Ma'*>in Kis/po'ssessiod it was not' •branded;; ■ did # not, authorise anyone to take tbe fijly, and brand it; valued the horse at about L 3; 'from where "the filly was running with its mother to where he found , it |s about: two miles; , she was foaled online run at Kakafiki. ! > Crbsi^eih mined by M r Hn wkins i 'From the run to Hnctetl's: 'place is'.abV ut two ; miles; wljiei) the hortt^, came to him it was abi>ut ten' chains fr Y; m" the prisoner's hpjise ;/haH "p*rn upjthe ; filly ; neither advertised nor Jf.tve intornwtjon to the police of his loss. a ; -The Cburi wm proic&din'g when' wr wentto^presH. ' ! :■?. ..'■•.v:\--m> '■ '■' ,-i.\ i) '<'-'Ui L :j -„ii!»:.;Vs •:•• s'^ yii;^-i:.i};i>:''.< ; l<-,