OWNERSHIP OF A HORSE

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4586, 16 July 1923, Page 2

OWNERSHIP OF A HORSE

YOUNG MAN BEFORE COURT. THE CASE DISMISSED. . At the Waihi Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, before Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., William Jas. Shaw was charged with that he did unlawfully, on February 2, and without colour of right, take and convert to his own use a horse, the property of Herbert Sydney Wells, of Waihi. Mr C. N. O’Neill (Paeroa) appeared for defendant, who entered a plea of not guilty. Senior-Sergeant O’Grady prosecuted, and stated that the horse had been the property of Mrs Shaw, and in February last her manager, Mr Weston, had sold it to Wells, the latter paying £1 deposit, in respedt. to its purchase. The defendant a week or two later got the animal out of Wells' paddock and rode it into Paeroa. W. J. Shaw, in the evidence,, stated that the horse was his property, having been transferred to him by his mother. In February last, having heard that his horse was sold, he visited Waihi Beach and took possession of tjie animal out of hi,s mother’s paddock and rode it into Paeroa. After hearing further evidnece the magistrate said that these proceedings should not have been brought be f ore the Court. It was a .subject for a civil action. The charge was accordingly dismissed. —Waihi Telegraph;