Intercabghxi., Monday, 22m> April. Robert Castle was charged with unlawfully and maliciously damaging one gold watch, 9 bags of oats, a quantity of flour, a quantity of delf, 11 panes of glass, and%o lbs of salt, the property of Alexander Kennedy, all of the value of £7, in a house on the Makarewa, on Ist November lasfe. Robert Kennedy, a settler at the Mukarewa, said that he left his house on 29th October to go sheep- shearing. He fastened the door by taking out the handle and putting a peg in an augur hole in the floor. He could reach this peg from the outside by putting his hand through a hole in the door made for the cat. There were 96 bags of oats, some carpenters' tools, a small gold watch, 20 or 30 lbs of flour in a bas, cooking utensils, some crockery, or delf, a looking glass, 20 or 30 lbs of salt in a tin, and other articles in the house. When he came back the door was closed, but the peg in the floor was taken out and pitched away. Nine bags of oats were cut up, and the oats wore on the floor. The flour bag was cut open, and the flour lying about the floor. The salt tin was capsized, and the salt spread about the place. Every pane of glass in the windows was broken. The crockery, including cups and saucers, jugs, a decanter and bowl, waa all broken. The gold : watch was pulled into several pieces, the hands j off, and the dial broken. Prisoner lived about a mile from him, had been working for him, and as ! far as he knew, bore no grudge against him. The damage was about £7. Did not in the least know who had done it. John Hunt, a boy about 12 years old, who was living with prisoner at the time, deoosed to having gone with the prisoner to the house. Prisoner took out the peg, and opened the door with a squure stick in the hole of the handle. He looked over the things in the house, but beyond
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Southland Times, Issue 1568, 23 April 1872, Page 3
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