ALLEGED BLACKMAIL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14280, 31 July 1908, Page 5

ALLEGED BLACKMAIL

TRIAL OF SIEVIER. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. I LONDON, July 29. Mills, a betting commissioner, testified that ho considered Joel had played him a dirty trick in getting hini to play a part in ectting a trap for Sievier. Joel, cross-examined, declared that tho allegation ol Mr Markhnm, M.l\, was an f invention. Ho admitted it was a dirtypieeo of business on his part to put Milk, t an innocent man, into the affair, but he i pleaded that Sievier had provoked him to 1 discover means of prosecution. \ Sievier testified that when Mills said 1 lie was able to get him a bit of money if Joel' 9 name were excluded from the t Winning Post (Sieviei's paper) he dis- 1 tinetly refused to accept Joel's money on < such torins. He denied that he ever pent ) 'Mills to Joel. Tho boot was on tho other leg. He, however, promised to keep e Joel's name out of the paper as a favour t to Mills, i THE. DEFENCE.. i LONDON, July 30. ( (Received July 30, at 11.45 p.m.) s Sievier described the witnesses Bendon ' and Mills ns perjurers, and declared that 1 Mr Joel and Mills had conspired to manu- { facture evidence against him. '