COCKFIGHTING.
THIRTEENTH MAN CONVICTED. "I plead technically guilty, although I had no more to do with it than you," stated Mortimer Bertholf, Otahuhu, in a letter to the Pukekohe Court yesterday, in answer to a rliarge of assisting in the righting of gamecocks at Ramarama on July 24. "I don't own anything that has a feather on it," he added. Although he was the thirteenth and last man, he v.as no more unlucky than the previous Iwelv* defendants. Mr. F. IT. Lovien, S.M., lined him £5 and 10/ costs, despite the fact that defendant wrote saying that his wages ..mounted to only 10/ a week.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 225, 22 September 1932, Page 11
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105COCKFIGHTING. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 225, 22 September 1932, Page 11
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