SQUANDERED £14,000
PRISON FOR FAMOUS JOCKEY’S SON , The story of the downfall of the son of a famous jockey, and the squandering of a fortune of £14,000 left him by his father, was told at Norwich when Frederick John Barrett, aged 38, a groom, was charged with stealing a bicycle worth £2 10s. Barrett, it was stated, hired the bicycle, giving a wrong name and address, and sold it at Beccles, near Lowestoft, for 12s. Superintendent Christie said Barrett’s father, Frederick John Barrett, the famous jockey, and winner of the Derby (1888), St. Leger (1889), and the other great races, died when the accused was young. At 21 Barrett junior, who was a native of Newmarket, inherited £14,000 under his father’s will, and squandered it. During 1925 and 1926 1 * was an inmate of Norwich workhouse, and had recently been tramping about the country. The chairman said the best course was to send Barrett to prison for 28 days, and when he came out the Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society might be able to help him.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 86, 2 July 1927, Page 9
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