ALLEGED HOUSE STEALING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4857, 22 October 1894, Page 2

ALLEGED HOUSE STEALING.

John Maeßae before the Court. A young man named John Mac-" Rae, was chaiged, ou remand, 'with stealing fiom Brancopetb. station, (Messis Beetlmm Bras) a horse named Tempest, valued at £l6, on the 10th of October last. The caseins heard in tho Magistiate's Court, Masteiton, before Messrs Hughes and Horon, J's P. H. H Beetham deposed that he was one of tho owners of Brancopth station. Remembered the morning | of October lOth;, when he wising formed'that a horse known as Tem-S: pest, belonging to him, was missing. Ho recognised the lioriain lenstodv.'; as that which'he of October. • Know'th'e ■ accused by : sight,-but had not givenbim or any other personany authority 'fa take-' or sell the liorso. .' ' Henry Broker, called,:'stated that; ho was a bullock-driver employed on ■ Brancepeth station, and remembered ; tho morning of tho 10th' of October, •' when he noticed that a dark brown : gelding named Tempest was missing; _ Tlio horse was on tho station "the. day.;, previous. The next day ho came to Masterton and reported to tlio police, that;.ho; believed from -information received, V: that a man named JohnMacßae had taken a horse from thestation. The ''■ horso he had seen outside the .Court, : ho recognised as Tempest. James Franklin, constable stationed at Cullcnsville, deposed that he. ar-.' rested the accused on the 16th inst.,- : in the Miners' Arms Hotel, and charged him with tho offence. When, arrested, accused told him it was a. mistake, as ho know nothing at all about it. i On the Court resuming at 12.15 Timothy Wood, an employee of Messrs Townsend and.Paul, auctioneers of Wellington, sworn, stated. that ho knew the aroused,-who , entered a horse, saddle and bridld--for auction sale on tho 13th October ! last. Informed witness that he had wonthemin aralllointhoWairarapa, 1 He gave the namo of John Maoßao ; when entering them. The horse was submitted to auction and sold to Robert Somervillo, of Wellington, for the sum of £h. Witness after the sale, gave doliveryof the horse to the purchaser. ■ The horso now outside the Court, which ho had. seen, was the same ono piit into the sale yards at Wellington by the accused. This ended the case for theproscution. '' Tho accused was then committed : for trial at the next sitting of the Supremo Court to lie holden at Wellington, - . * ';' '

John Macßao was further charged T with stealing from Brancopeth sta- •■■'*■•■'£ tion one saddle and bridleon the 9th. •: V : ; October, the property ■of Henry ;i I'-;i Broker, an employe on the' station. !.;| Sergeant McAvdlcprosecuted.;- p. : :^; Henry Broker,' called,ifeted' that - ■:;.<s he recognised the property pro- ;■;"• iluced in Court as that belonging 'to h : jh him, and. removed on theOth'inst. : ; Gave the accused no authorUfefogatfi use or take the saddle Valued them at £3los. l«^^^l Constable James that the accused, after rested and conveyed to the'polico ■•,' v station, upon being ,aßked for.his i swag, informed them that it was at ' : -: the Grand National Hotel; They went there and found a saddle and "■%■■ and bridle in the storeroomj which ■■■'■'.■':- the accused said did not belong tiliim but to a mato of his, a man named • ; .; Fell. Fell, who was sent for, deniod the ownership of them in the pre- -v sence of tho accused, and said thoy bolonged to the accused. ' The ao- , ensed then said they were his, but Jj did not like to own them n the pre- *>r sence of the people in the hotel, v ■': Recognised the saddle and bridlo produced in Court as the same found , in accused's possession at Cullonsville,

Timothy Wood, auctioneer's as- ■'■# sistant, sworn, stated that tho saddle .;• .;■ and bridle produced in Court were . the samo articles as those entered by 0 the accused on tho 13th ihst, Tho -■ holes in tho saddle-cloth were cut ,; by the accused in tho presence of .* mtnoss, . • , : .

The accused, who reserved hisde- ; s was then committed to toko .•.'•'#" his trial at tho Supreme Court to be* : holden at Wellington on November the 15th next,