KING'S PRIZEMAN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 255, 4 November 1910, Page 5

KING'S PRIZEMAN.

WHO DID NOT SHOOT AT THE FINAL RANGE.

THE CASE AGAINST PIGGOTT.

[press association.l " (Received Nov,.3 a &55 p.m.) !- ■ ■ SYDNEY, Nov. 3. Piggott was charged at the Police Court to-day with falsely pretending to the secretary of the Rifle Association that he had scored 49 at the 1000 yards range for the King's Prize, whereby he obtained £100, with indent to defraud, after being proclaimed the winner and chaired. Piggott received the £100, but afterwards returned th© money to the Association. . Th© arresting , constable produced Piggott's written statement, in which he confessed that he did not shoot at 1000 yards. He declared that he was sitting behind a mound when an unknown man asked to see his shootingcard. He marked in the score, and was told to hand it in, and that it would be all right. Piggott also alleged that he made a bet with the man to whom he handed the filled-in card of £2 to nothing that he would win tho King's Prize. Piggott afterwards wrote secretly to the Association asking them to keep the matter out of the papers for the sake of innocent ones at home. Another witness deposed that he njet Piggott by arrangement, after Piggott was told that he had won, fairly and;squarely, and he agreed to attend th© inquiry and give evidence in support of Piggott's claim that he !had mad© the score. Th© case was adjourned for a week ■"to allow defending counsel time to. (.consider what -course to adopt.