DOG THAT WAS MISSED

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 67, 10 June 1927, Page 9

DOG THAT WAS MISSED

A THEFT CHARGE TWO CLAIM OWNERSHIP “It is the most useless dog I have ever seen in my life,” said a witness at the Police Court this morning, when Walter Reid Hill was charged before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., with the theft of a cattle dog, valued at £lO, the property of James Watt. Although this view of the usefulness of the dog may have been quite true, much time was spent in the court this morning trying to thrash the matter out. James Watt, who claimed the dog as his, said that he had had it since a pup. On the other hand, the accused said that he had lost the animal while he was in the hospital. He heard later that it was at the railway camp at St. Heliers. He assured the court that he had bred tlie dog. Hill said that he saw Watt at the camp and informed him that the deg inside the gate belonged to him (the accused). Watt said that, cn the contrary, the dog was his, and asked him to come inside while he rang up the police. Hill, however, declined to lo this, saying that he had people out in the car waiting for him. After both Watt and Hill had given different accounts of the dog’s eventful life, the magistrate adjourned the case until June 17.