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ANOTHER HOG CASE.mmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmJk Connlderate Ooiulu uiipoiii of a Load of Hogn Against the Owners Will.A complicated hog case is likely to arise from a circumstance that happened yesterday. Mr. John Malloy of Washington township cam6 to the city with eight hogs, and stood oe First street waiting for a purchaser. A man by the name of Philip Me-(Jeever approached Mr. Malloy, extending his hand in welcome, and claiming to be a cousin, which Mr. Malloy acknowledged, heis sorry to say.“Have you sold your hogs?” *sked Me-. «* •Geever.“Not yet,” replied Mr. Mallory.“I think I can sell them at better advantage than you can,” remarked the cousin.“Guess not,” said Mallory, who left his wagon for a few minutes to attend to some other busipess. * When he returned lie discovered that his wagons and hogs were gone. Some time afterward he met McGeenert who told him tiiat he had sold the hogs forhim.“To whom did you sell them?”‘‘That makes no difference.”• “Where are the receipts?”“No difference about them. Here is the money,” and McGeever handed Malloy the sum of twenty dollars.“Is this ail you got for eight fine hogs?” “That’s all.”Mr. Malloy thought the proceeding an unwarranted one and applied to Justice Duffv for a warrant for the arrest of his would-be agent on the charge of larceny. The warrant was placed in the hands of an officer for execution, but up to this writing the cousin had not been arrested.
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Dubuque Times
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Fri, Nov 16, 1883
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