CHARGE OF THEFT.
CONFESSION BY JOCKEY. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 15. How an apprentice jockey employed by a Trentliam horse trainer was given £lO to bank during a visit to Wellington, but silent the money on liquor and confessed in a letter that he was too ashamed to return to his employer was told in the Magistrate’s Court when Roderick Archibald Mcßae, aged 24, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing money from John Charles McKenzie. “I attribute my lapse to over-indul-gence in liquor,” accused said in a statement to the police. He explained that he had every intention of banking the money until he reached the city on June 10, and was unable to find the hank. Then he began to visit hotels, making tho acquaintance of several strangers, and lie soon became intoxicated. Next morning he found lie had spent most of the money and did not like to return to his employer. He was prepared to make restitution. He had written to his employer confessing that he had spent the money. Accused was remanded for further inquiries.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 193, 16 July 1937, Page 8
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181CHARGE OF THEFT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 193, 16 July 1937, Page 8
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