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that a Mr. Parsons, a pretended clerk of Mr. Esdaile, would 
come and pay the money. The horse was accordingly taken 
to Davies-mews, and left in custody of a boy in the street, 
while Mowatt and the pretended coachman and clerk 
adjourned to a public-house, called the Running Horse, to 
settle the transaction. Mowatt was asked for a receipt for 
the £32, and accordingly produced one regularly stamped, 
which he handed over to the pretended clerk, who was, in 
fact, a porter at Billinsgate, named Clow, and received in 
exchange seven sovereigns and a dishonoured acceptance of 
his own for £25. Mowatt insisted upon having the receipt 
returned, but this was refused. He then went to look after 
the horse, but, in the meantime, it had been got into the 
defendant’s stables, and the defendant refused to part with 
it. The plaintiff subsequently called upon the defendant 
and demanded the horse, but the latter refused to give it up, 
though the plaintiff offered to give him an indemnity for 
any action which might be brought against him. 
The defence was that the horse in question was not the 
plaintiff’s horse, but that the plaintiff had admitted it 
belonged to Mowatt. It was acknowledged that the horse 
had been obtained from Mowatt by a ruse, in return for a 
dishonoured acceptance of Mowatt’ s and seven sovereigns. 
It appeared by the evidence given on the part of the 
defendant, that a young gentleman named Minter had been 
led by an advertisement which appeared in the Times to 
deposit the sum of £32 with Mowatt, at the Boar and Castle, 
in Oxford-street, as security for a horse which he had taken 
on trial. The horse turned out to be broken-winded, and 
fell down from exhaustion on the first trial; but Minter, 
failing to get back his money, had Mowatt taken into 
custody for swindling. No proceedings, however, were 
taken, Mowatt having returned seven sovereigns to Minter, 
together with his acceptance for the sum of £25, which he 
afterwards dishonoured. Some time after Minter saw an 
advertisement in the Times for the sale of this bay horse, 
66 the property of a deceased gentleman,” and thinking from 
the style of the advertisement that it was one of Mowatt’s 
drawing up, he went to Chenies-mews and saw the plaintiff], 
who told him that the horse in question was the property of 
Mowatt. A detective policeman named King was then 
consulted, and it was arranged that Tuck and Clow should 
purchase the horse, and give in part payment Mowatt’s own 
dishonoured acceptance. This was accordingly done, and 
the horse was deposited in the defendant's stables, whence it 
was afterwards taken away by Minter. 
