DISPUTED OWNERSHIP.
A man named Josoph Geddes was charged at the Police Court yesterday morning with stealing a block of wood, the property of William Charles Brown. On being sworn the informant William Charles Brown stated that he sold the defendant 2 cords of firewood composed of blue-gum and pine. The wood was in two stacks. Mr. Chrisp had ordered a block of blue-gum from witness, and it was lying about 14 feet from the stack when the firewood was sold. The accused said he would remove the wood in his spare time. Witness had occasion to go out to Patutahi and when ho returned to town the block was still in the same place, accused having removed the two stacks of firewood. There was about 8 or 9 cords of other firewood stacked in the yard which the witness had sold to Mr. Hailey, tlio baker. The block was left on the ground until the lltli inst. wlioji witness saw accused removing it. Witness spoko to the accused and told him not to take the block away as it did not belong to him. The accused replied that ho had bought it along with the firewood, and would not give it up for for £SO. His Worship said that it was clearly a case of disputed ownership and should have been a civil action and not a criminal one. The accused was discharged.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2134, 17 July 1907, Page 4
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234DISPUTED OWNERSHIP. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2134, 17 July 1907, Page 4
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