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POLICE REPORT.        

Wednesday, 13th December 1837.

John Malton, an assigned servant to Mr. Lester,was sentenced to receive 30 lashes, for having absented himself from his master's  

service, and being found outrageously drunk at the

Clarendon.

Martin Connell, an Irishman, complained of   his master, a highly respectable gentleman in the Customs, for having assaulted him. Connell's wife had taken some things with her when   quitting their service, which caused some   disturbance with the assigned servant. The injury sustained by Martin was estimated at 6d.     Thursday, 14th December.        

John Cavanagh, a licensed publican, was cast  

in the penalty of £2, for lending money on pledges without entering them in a book.

Mr. Joseph Pattison, charged with driving furiously along the road, demurred against the charge. Case adjourned.    

Friday, 15th December.

Charles Henderson, for assaulting Priscilla   Marshall. Case dismissed.  

Mary King, was deprived of her ticket-of- leave, for stealing an apron, the property of Hannah Brown.    

Several drunkards were fined.

Henry Christian and John Logan, two seamen, were charged with refusing to work on board the vessel. Both discharged.

Margaret Carroll, fined 40s. for introducing rum into the jail.            

Nearly the whole of the day was occupied in hearing a case of assault, against two young gentlemen, on Joseph Miller, assigned to Mr. Degraves. Case dismissed, and Miller, with two other assigned servants, returned to the Government.

James Nance, charged with an assault on James Costello, was acquitted.

Saturday, 16th December.

William Davis, was sentenced to one month on the treadwheel, for having been found in Mr. Wilson's garden with apples in his pocket.

Mary Cobett, a ticket-of-leave woman, one  

month to the House of Correction, for being

drunk.      

John Carter was fully committed for   embezzling £4 of his master's money.    

William Clapperton, cook to Alfred Stephen, Esq., was remanded on a charge of having     embezzled various sums of money received by him to pay the several tradesmen.

John Allen, on a charge of horsestealing made by Mr. Gregson - remanded.

Monday, 18th December.

Several drunkards fined 5s. each, and several assigned servants dealt with in a summary

manner.

Tuesday, 19th December.

The whole of the day was nearly occupied in examining into the case of John Allen, charged by Thomas George Gregson, Esq. with horse stealing. This case excited unusual interest, and was not disposed of until after seven o'clock. The number of witnesses examined was very great, and the whole affair altogether appeared most extraordinary and mysterious. We shall therefore report it more fully than we generally do cases of this description.

Mr. Gregson deposed that some days since he stood with Mr. Rowling in the front of Mr. Kemp's premises in Macquarie-street, when he saw Allan riding on a horse which Mr. Gregson knew belonged to him. It was thorough bred, and was called Jacky Jack.

John Ogle Gage, Esq. deposed, that about seven months since he observed the same horse

coming up to his gate; he caught him by the   fore hair, and put him into his paddock; with his other horses. No owner for it appeared during two months, when he advertised the horsce in the newspapers. Shortly after Allen came to him saying that he believed he had a horse of his in   his possession, as it answered the description given in the newspaper. Mr Gage questioned him in a particular manner, and then shewed him the horse. Allan said he was almost sure the horse   was his, but as he had not seen him since he was five months old, he would not venture to remove him till he should see Mr. Jarvis, who had permitted him to run amongst his horses in the     paddock. Some day's after, when Mr. Gage was   from home, Allen and Jarvis came and took the horse away.      

Mr Rawling deposed that when Mr. Gregson and himnself were standing a few days since     in front of Mr. Kemp's house, Mr. Gregson thought he recognised the horse, and asked Rawling to inquire of Allen if he would sell it.   Allen said yes! and fixed the price at £85.     He was asked of whom he had bought the   horse and replied, that he had reared it himself,   and that it was gotten, by a Sydney horse.   Mr. Rawlings upon a question being asked by Mr. Rowlands for the defence said, that the

price fixed by Allen was fair and full the value   of the horse. The prisoner said to Mr. Rawling

in the street that he could come and look at the horse at any time he might please.

Edward Abbott, Esquire, deposed as to the   identity of the horse, and believed him to be  

Mr Gregson's property.  

George Davis deposed that he had sometime before had some discourse with Jarvis about the horse, and said he was much like a racer. This   man was strongly cross-examined by Mr. Rowlands,

He had been a partner of Allen's, had brought him to the Police-office several times,

had spoken to District Constables Wright and Watkins, wishing them to lay information against Allen, for feloniously cutting

timber, had written concerning it to the Chief

Police Magistrate.             Jarvis in whose posession the horse had been

for upwards of two years, said that the horse had

         

about 7 or 8 months since, got away from his paddock, he believed the horse now in the Police Yard, to be the same, though somewhat different in appearance, did not look so rough as before, his tail was then long. Had any one brought him to his place, he would have paid the reward offered on Allen's account.  

Woolding a veterinary surgeon deposed, that about two-years since, he was called upon by

Jarvis to operate on several colts, about 12   months old, and he believed, the horse in the Police yard to be the same, but could not swear   positively.      

Mr. William Williams the next neighbour to Jarvis on the New Norfolk Road, deposed that the horse had run amongst his horses in the paddock. He believed that the horse in the   Police-office yard was the same. Had he seen   it any where else, he should have claimed it as

Allen's.

William Davis deposed, that the horse in the yard, had got into his paddock, and he thought it belonged to Mr. Austin. He then went to acquaint Mr. Austin with it, when the latter told him that Fox the boatman had informed him, that he had seen a horse swimming cross the river, from Stony Ferry, and land about Davis's place. The horse remained with the witness about a fortnight, and then got away when he opened his gate to let out other horses. He afterwards saw him amongst Mr. Gage's horses. Jarvis and Allen then took him away.

John Fox deposed that he saw a horse at the   time mentioned, swim across the river, and land about Davis's place.

The evidence was of a conflicting character,   but the sitting magistrate Mr. Champ, could elicit nothing to fix the prisoner with a felonious intention and discharged him.

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