John Walker

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Before W. W. Bonsey, Esq., P.M. HORSE STEALING. John Walker was placed in the dock charged by Mr. James Wallace of the Eureka Inn, Ballarat road, with, stealing a grey are branded CEL on the of shoulder, and am blotch brand on the neafr shoulder. Wallace being sworn, stated,-That on the 2t6h September, he bought a mare of the prisoner at the bar, and a man of the name of Henry- Jackson, since convicted of horse stealing; Jackson and Walker went to the Batesford pound, released the mare, and witness paid over the sum of £20 for the purchase of the animal; after paying the money to Jackson, that person the pri onser brought the mare to the Eureka Inn, and handed over the animal; she was after wards claimed by Mr. Candy. The pound-keeper was called upon to identify the prisoner 'Walker, as being one of the men who released the animal, but his evidence was not clear upon this point, although he perfectly well remembered his assistant Williams, allowing the mare in question to be taken out of the Batesford Pound on the 26th September. The evidence of William Candy, went to prove that on a Sunday morning sometime in the middle of last June, a grey mare of his branded CEL was stolen from the front of his premises in Kilgour-street Ashby; that in the middle of last October he again got sight of the animal, and after making a claim before the Police Bench for her restoration, obtained the mare by order of the Magistrates, from the last witness, Wallace, and sold her on the same day to another party for £25. The prisoner was remanded for a week.

Further Reading

Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.

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