JOCKEY ADMITS THEFT
SPENT EMPLOYER'S MONEY
' RESULT OF DRINKING (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. How an apprentice jockey, employed by a Trentham horse trainer, was given £lO to bank during a visit to Wellington, but spent the money on liquor and confessed in a letter that he was too ashamed to return to his employer, was told in the Police Court, when Roderick Archibald Mcßae, aged 24, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing the money from John Charles McKenzie.
"I, attribute my lapse to over indulgence 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 bank. Then he began to visit the hotels, making acquaintance of several strangers and he soon became intoxicated. Next morning he found he 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.
The accused was remanded for further inquiries.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19378, 16 July 1937, Page 12
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