TAUPIRI SENSATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 34, 3 May 1927, Page 13

TAUPIRI SENSATION

SUSPICIOUS DEALS VALUABLE CATTLE SOLD MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE (From Our Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, To-day. An account, savquring of the methods of the American cattle rustlers, comes from Taupiri of some stock transactions in which it is understood a wellknown resident of the locality is concerned and who has now disappeared. He is a married man with five children and it is alleged had several times threatened to commit suicide, but his expressions to that effect were not taken seriously. Some alarm was caused a day or two ago, however, when his horse was found tethered on the bank of the Waikato River. Dragging operations in the vicinity revealed nothing. Coincident with his disappearance some good Friesian stock belonging to Mr. Mathers, was missed, and reports were received that some person had been seen driving the cattle at night. It subsequently was learned that tlie cattle had been disposed of in Morrinsville for £l2O, one cheque being made payable, in the name of the man who had disappeared, and another in the name of another Taupiri resident who cleared himself however of any implication in the affair. More cattle were missed and it was found that the stock had been sold at Morrinsville. The latest development in the tangle of events was that a man resembling the missing farmer had been recognised on the platform of the Taumarunui staiton. Chase of the Ttaumarunui station. Chase Inquiries are being prosecuted by the police.