RACEHORSE INCIDENT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 57, 19 February 1935, Page 5

RACEHORSE INCIDENT

Alleged Assault on Mrs. Cain THREE MEN CHARGED (Received 19, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 19. As a sequel to the racehorse incident at Kensington on Saturday, Gordon William Watson, aged 27, jockey, Ronald William Watson, aged 29, jockey, and Alfred William Twyman, aged 35, clerk, were remanded at the Police Court on a charge of unlaw, fully assaulting Eileen Cain, wife of the trainer, A. Cain. The "’rosecution alleged that the thrr .ffendanfs in company with two otl ’ one to Mrs. Cain’a home an h' i about rather badly. The ■ added ibft it was also ' flUeg- ■' racehorse Supreme Court , and in conncticn therewith .iher charges would be preferred. Defendants’ counts! intimated that the defence was a perfect alibi. Tlie racehorse Supreme Court has been returned to Cain’s stable. The well-known racing man to whose stable the horse was taken offered no oppo. sition to its repossession by the trainer. New Zealand's mystery horse, Supreme Court, figured in a series of dramatic incidents on Saturday. Lnknown men forcibly took the horse from the Kensington stable of Albert Cain while Cain was on his way to Warwick Farm, and are alleged to have assaulted Mrs. Cain, who attempted to stop them from removing the horse. Police subsequently found Supreme Court in stables at Randwick. Finally a man claiming to be attorney for the owner took possession of Supreme Court,