MAN AND HORSES.
"CANT LEAVE THEM ALONE."
ADMISSION" IX (X)URT
(By Telegraph.-
-Press Association.)
NKW PLYMOUTH, this day
Admitting- a list of previous convictions for offences, including theft, forgery and receiving stolen property, Cecil Allan Crosby pleaded guilty before Mr. W. H. Woodward to-day of being unlawfully fin the New Plymouth racecourse at the ITunt Club's meeting on September 2. He also admitted that he had been tialning horses under a license obtained in another name. He was convicted and lined £2.
Ihe police r-aid Crosby, under tlie name of Mclntyre, had been disqualified for lite by the Racing Conference, but had <since obtained another license under the name of MeCormac.
"How did you manage to have this license'/ nskcd the magistrate. "I can't leave horses alone," replied defendant. I was born and brought up among them and I'll die among them."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 214, 11 September 1939, Page 9
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142MAN AND HORSES. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 214, 11 September 1939, Page 9
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