CHARGE OF FALSE PRETENCES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 109, 4 November 1910, Page 7

CHARGE OF FALSE PRETENCES.

« ALLEGED "RIGGING" OF A SHOOTING SCORE. PIGGOTT IN THE POLICE COURT. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright, SYDNEY, 3rd November. W. J. Piggott, of the Tramways' Rifle Club, was charged at the Police Court with having falsely pretended to the secretary of thp New South Wales Rifle Association that he scored 49 points at tho 1000 yards vange in the competition for the King's Prize at the recent rifle meeting, and thereby obtained £100 with intent to defraud. After having been proclaimed tho winner and "chaired,"' Piggott received £100, but afterwards returned the money to the association. The arresting constable' produced Piggott's written « statement, wherein he confessed that he did not shoot at the thousand yards range, but declared that he was sitting behind a mound when an unknown man asked to see his thooting cafd, and marked in a score, telling him to hand it in, and that it would be all right. Piggott also alleged that he had made a bet of £2 to nothing with the man to whom he handed the filled-in card that he would win the King's Prize. Piggott afterwards wrote to the secretary of the association, asking him to keep the matter out of the papers for the sake of his innocent ones at home. A witness deposed that he met Piggott by arrangement, and that after he (Piggott') had told him that he had won fairly and squarely, he agreed to attend the enquiry find give evidence in support of Piggott's claim that ho made the score. The case was adjourned for a week, to allow tho defending counsel time to consider tho best course to adopt.