Kept Bribes But Took No Action, Court Told

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30173, 3 July 1963, Page 4

Kept Bribes But Took No Action, Court Told

tK ZPJt.-Reater—Capvrathti

BRIGHTON. July L A ptabkriand told a Brtgbfon Court hearing in a horaetfcteng conspiracy case today that he had accepted money » give horses toffee rods with dope in them, bat had do intention off faring them to the horses specified. “I thought they would get beaten, anyway,” be expteaned. The tmadenufied wttnete known only as Snuffy, aaid be was offered £5OO to "nabUe” St. Paddy before the IMO St Lagsr wtteb B won.

SntdQr gaffd that during the t«» flat-raring aaaggn a number of meeting* were held in th* Newmarket home of another ttable boy called Mick.

At ft* fin* vt thee* naeettoga he met a nan called Joe. who has been identified a* Joseph Lowry, a ft-ywar-old nleaast. one of six men accused of taking pact in the alleged doping conspiracy over a period of nine yean 43 the toeing of IMO. when he met Joe at Muck's piece. Jimmy, another stable lad also was present. rte was ask ad to draw s •ketch of the stable yard of Mr Miiritn. a weUknoem Newmartoet Warner, for whom he worked until ML Snuffy said that during fte IM aaaaon be was -offered £W to gfee a toffee roll •wftfc aomeftinc msde" to

SC. Pteddy He rid got too* wtet was in tbe tofffee rol! but be thought M was to faff him beaten—to stop him. He was not willing to give -“the ruuff” to St Paddy Asked why he refused the £5O. he replied: “I was "I was offered £3OO to give St Paddy Kmething. That offer wag firm made by Mick. I tod Mick I would not do it I was offered £3OO by Joe. but I again ted no

Then a meeting was held at which I was told I would get more—l tank about £3OO but I am not certain.” Snuffy said, "t satd I did not want anything to do with it”

Broke Leg, Destroyed

Ttotasnu fractured a fettoek joint after schooling in. preauniy at Bfcearton yestonday, and was destroyed. Bidden by T. Wiiaon. she had finished a ran over eight of fte trial steeplechase fences wnU dear of Kaeeno 'Coultort when fte taMered on a bit of taieven ground and tbe cdUmnmcL Mr and Mr* R. R. lonian’s Defaulter mere was an acceptor for fte Trilford Memoriaj JSteepieHTtoß on the aeeand ftw of fte Sooth Canter-.byty-fecfcey Chiba wftter