ADMITTED TO PROBATION.
JOCKEY’S LAPSE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 22. “As this is your first criminal offence, and I hope your last, and in view of vour age, I am going to admit you to probation for two years, a special term being that you abstain from liquor during that term,” said Mr Wyvern Wilson. S.M., when a jockey, Roderick Archibald Mcßae, aged 21, appeared for sentence in the Police Court on a charge of stealing £lO which had been handed to him iiv a horse trainer lo hank.
The police said Mcßae had been addicted to drink. His jockey’s apprenticeship license was cancelled, hut Inter he was granted a temporary license. This was his first appearance in Court: There was no doubt that drink was the cause of the trouble.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 198, 22 July 1937, Page 2
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