JOCKEY IMPRISONED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 157, 5 July 1937, Page 9

JOCKEY IMPRISONED.

CONVICTED OF VAGRANCY. TRTP TX RENTAL CAR. r (By Telesraph.—Own Correspondent.) ROTORUA, Saturday. A jockey, Charles Edward Brown, alias Charles Carmont (21), was charged in the Rotorua Court this morning with vagrancy. He was convicted and sentenced to 21 day-* imprisonment. Senior-Sergeant E. .T. Cairo]] sl-at'-d that Brown had been arrest- «1 .:- a result of inquiries which were mad-- inr -. mi»<ing rental car ounc«i by an An -i-.'ji; i firm. He and a ma:i named Fr.itei had apparently gone, to t:ie Tc Awan'.utu races, where they parted company. Brown drivinjr two women hack to Ai> inland, lie and one of the women then returned to Hamilton, where auothi-r man and his wife were met and the four came to Rotorua la-l Tuesday. Brown then ran out of money and telephoned a friend at Auckland, but Hai declined a loan and advised to see a certain business man in Rotorua. The Rotorua man. however, was not prepared to provide a lr>an without his Auckland friend'* guarantee. Later. Brown ajrain approached him with a mes=ajre from the Auckland man purporting to guarantee a loan. In the meantime the police found the ear parked behind a hotel with the num-ber-plates under the back seat. The police partly dismantled the car, so that it could not be driven away. When arrested Brown had no money and in addition to incurring 14/ toll charces, was also unable to pay his hotel bill."