CATTLE STEALING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4075, 29 March 1892, Page 2

CATTLE STEALING.

■flPortr-ltiloßusiOiw. .=•! (By Telegraph). . | (From Our Own Correspondent). '' < 1 Pahiatda, Tuesday. " § _in the Pobce Court \esterday, I before Messrs McCardle and Ho hes, 1 Justices, Robert Bushel 1 was oliargfld on remand witktEe iat? J oeny of two bead of cattle at Makuri, I the property of John Dick. | Constable Cooper prosecuted, Mr " *' Tosswill defended, and Mr Gould ap„ peared to watoh tho case on behalf of . Mr G, Winter, a witness, • John Dick, farmer, of Makuri, ' sworn, stated thatbe lost two weanera about three weeks smce-a yearling steer and a nine months'old heifer. Neither were branded or earmarked.*- 1 Thoy usually ran on his unfenced | seotioa and on the road. They never E strayed more than a mile or left the | looality. Ho first missed them about""- v | the 10th i»st. From information he J received lie proceeded to Ballanoa [i with his son James and the constable. \' He found the lost cattle at Herlihy's. They had been earmarked and ■ branded since beinglost,. He saw the calves that day in the police paddook " and could easily identify them, beoause they were quiet and always about the homestead. He never authorised anyone to take them away, Cross examined: Only twjjpthieo chains of the road fence Had been m'jg erected. The road frontage was over ,J 40ohains. There was a sooure fence , betwoen him and his neighbour Cur- N rie, The rest of the seotion was fenced at the time he missed the calves. Winter's seotion was about a mile from him, three sections intervening. He bred the calves. They ' were born at Jessop's in the Village Settlement andremained there until New Year's Day last. He had a \ registered brand and earmark. Since he missed the other one his cattle had never, to his knowledge, got mixed with Wjnter'R. He did not know Mrs Marsh, the acoused's wife. He saw acouaed with a lady and another man about three weeks ago in tho ; forenoon. He was fencing along tho side of tbo road. He did not see ao« ousedreturn. He was burnipgpatcbos of bush in the afternoon.- .It was about fire or six days afterwards when Ihe missed the calves, He did not see them the morning Marsh wont ." up. The oalves were once aws* for t two or three days. He belated it was before the 15th January tho calves were weaned, James Dick generally corroborated his father's evidence. William Dick also gave corroborative evidence. , )" \ Cross-examined, he said he wa3*j|fc| sent to Makuri after these cattlo in January. He afterwards found them in Puckle's bush. He was working < for Mr Cacoia from June till Septenv ber. George Winter, farmer, of Makuri i Valley, deposed: I know the aooused. ' On the 21st February last I agreed to Bell him twenty head of mixed cattle. K ""l There were thirteen young calves, one about five months old. The rest \ were:- -Twoseventeen months heifers, ; two steers of the same age, one red and white cow, one red and white heifer, and one springing white heifer. The acoused agreed to go up to Mr Cacoia's place to look at some * other cattle. I think it was the followingmorning I delivered through young O'Grady, on aooused's sjflunt, two heifers and- one calf of Cacoia's. Ernest Hayward and Edwin Gower a, took delivery. On the 3rd March, MJ Marsh oame up to Mr Cacoia's. I gave V him delivery of five heifers and \m j calves, and gave him six steers to takf into Crewe's Bale yards on my aooount. One of the calves was about eight months old and the other about six week 3, I attended Mr Crewe's sale on the sth inßt., and saw Marsh there. We were looking together at a pen of fourteen calves and I said.-, "Holloa, Marsh, you've got soma* strangers here." I said this because I noticed some of the oahes were larger than tho ones I sold him, I recognised some of them as being those sold by me to acoused, I could not say how many, He replied, "Yes, one of my own,' 1 and either" two others" or "two I've bought." I can-. not remember the exact words, 1 have seen two oalves in the polioe paddock this morning. They were not'the calves I hud at any tin»sold to accused. I identify them aSlhe calves I have Been about Dick's place. 1 have several times seen them on tho road towards Cacoia's and driven * them back, Cross-examined: The cattlo Isold acoused on the 21st February ifere delivered by my ; father; on the Brd March. I was at Cacoia's the same day and delivered Borne other cattle to Marsh. There were nine of them.weaners, The receipt produced for twelve weanors is in my hand* writing. The cattle sold from my place were all my own property. Some of these I had only bought about two months befors. Ibonghtthemrecontly. It was since the 21st December I bought the nine weanera from Biroie. About a week or tori- ■ lay's afterwards Bounes3 took them v ~ to my paddook, I could not say whether calvss could get through my fence. A log came down aoross it in January, It haß since been repaired, [ had seen the calves in question moro ;han once up the road at CaccieW I md seen them on one ocoasWafc N'gaturi township. I would not say that . did not go to the pen with accused it his request to see about some that fere missing. I noticed the strangers onoe as they wero larger than hose sold by witness.' I did not give he acodsbd/'any lisfc'qf the ! cattle solo] ohiiriexo'ept'the* receipt 'produced; Icciised gave an aotob'wledgment-ibr be cattle bought.'l did'riot tell * larsh he/ had bought any palyes from lounness.' I could hot sky "the oalves aaw in the pen at. the sale. were JickVcalves, I could have told if 1 ad gone to look at tliem particularly, cgujfj'ngt mjstajte'Dick's calves for %t totaj umber of calyeß given delivery q? a't accia's and witness' glace on tjie 8;d [arch w«? ■.jjfteqn; '''Accused,' said jere wgr§ jom; missing, lost on the ad. The two receip| shoeing sis', ien oalves were tor dejrvery a) (jiffej-rt-tips fe r h Wkrt : mH v '■-Mm living m ty atQagoja/q, "V bavo ut... r.--',.-«». b^p To the Bench : loia uu ''jf, iere the two oalves were on the 2rd & '•- aroh, ' > John Winter, settler, of Makuri ,- alley.deposed that he knew accused. . " 18rd March bp gave a'ccipij de- , ery of twelve weanors, two- heifers, \ 0 steers, two cows, and two springs " r .^r; 1 heifers, On his return from iCoia's there.wpre two oalves out-j le the bars, He went to.rouse them i, but eaw there was no brand, but ay were earmarked,, He policed ey 'were of different sexes, The lerwas a, dirty red, jyitji a whitf) :e, and tb?" heifer was nearly u)l 1. He had never; Been ( the oalves fore, ■■■ On Marsh's, return from