MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 256, 26 September 1935, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

CASE AT ’WELLINGTON. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 25. Police allegations against Marcus Jackson, 38, it salesman, in Court, today, involved obtaining a large sum of money from a clerk, already serving imprisonment for theft from his employers, by posing as a jockey and persuading him to give money for racecourse transactions. Jackson pleaded not guilty. The charge was stated to be that, on April 15 and July 19, Jackson obtained £2lO from George Diack by representing that he was “Tommy’ Green, a licensed jockey, and that he was entering business as a racehorse trainer and had arranged to buy two horses named Moss Vale and Bronze Lady for Diack, and needed money to pay for feed and to stable the horses. Diack gave evidence that he had told accused he had not been successful with racing; in fact, he was “in the cart” through it. Accused assured him he could get him out of it. Diack proceeded to relate a series of negotiations with accused and subsequent business relations, accused posing as Green in all he said. He had paid accused LylU. Accused was committed for trial.