GATHERED GOLD
A RAGING SENSATION CONSPIRACY CHARGE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, July 20 (Received. July 20, at noon.) At the Central Police Court William Mattersou and Walter M'Carthy were charged with conspiring together to cheat and defraud the Richmond Trotting Club and the New South "Wales, Victorian, and Western Australian Trotting Associations of largo sums of money. It was alleged that the trot ting mare registered in Australia as Gathered Gold was identical with the New Zealand maro Promenade. Two racing officials identified the horso as one nominated by Mattcrson in ilie name of Gathered Gold. A detective gave evidence that when ho nterviowed M'Carthy at Auckland the latter told him that he had sold Promenade to his brother-in-law; that the horse had died; and that he had purchased Gathered Gold trom Matterkou, and had run it in Victoria and Western Australia, and had then sold the horse for £s(l.
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Evening Star, Issue 19613, 20 July 1927, Page 8
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150GATHERED GOLD Evening Star, Issue 19613, 20 July 1927, Page 8
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