So this looked like a hitch, as juries won't bring a man in guilty of cattle-stealing unless there's clear swearing that the animals he sold were the property of the prosecutor, and known by him to be such.
Mr.Hood had to go all the way to Adelaide himself, and they told me we might likely have got out of it all, only for the imported bull.

When he saw him he said he could swear to him point blank, brand or no brand.
He'd no brand on him, of course, when he left England; but Hood happened to be in Sydney when he came out, and at the station when he came up.

He was stabled for the first six months, so he used to go and look him over every day, and tell visitors what a pot of money he'd cost, till he knew every hair in his tail, as the saying is.

As soon as he seen him in Adelaide he said he could swear to him as positive as he could to his favourite riding horse.

So he was brought over in a steamer from Adelaide, and then drove all the way up to Nomah.