ALLEGED SHEEP STEALING
HAWKE’S BAY CASE. Napier, December 4. Robert McGregor, farm manager, was charged at the Police Court this morning with the theft of 115 sheep, valued at £172 10/-, the property of Walter Charles Ensor, of Mangalutu Detective Sergeant Butler said Ensor owned 13,000 acres and ran about 10,000 sheep. Accused was part owner of a farm on the Puketitiri Road, and also manlaged a property of 18,000 acres, the latter situated between Ensor’s property and that in which accused was interested. The prosecution suggested that it was across this farm that accused drove sheep from Ensor’s place to his own. Mr Ensor put 250 sheep in a certain paddock, and, noticing that the number’s seemed to decrease, put in a further 90. Later he found 150 had disappeared, and some of those he saw on accused's property ou making a visit t here. A detective visited the station and ordered a muster, and among the sheep were 115 2-tooth ewes belonging to Ensor, with an added earmark. The hearing of lengthy evidence had not concluded when the Court adjourned for to-day.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2668, 6 December 1923, Page 3
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184ALLEGED SHEEP STEALING Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2668, 6 December 1923, Page 3
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