A TRAP.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13660, 31 July 1908, Page 5

A TRAP.

SPORTSMEN AT LOGGERHEADS.

THE JOEL-SIEVIER CASE.

Press. Association-By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, July 29.

Mills, a Letting commissioner, testified that lie considered Joel lia.<l played a dirty trick in getting liim to play a part in setting a trap for Sievier. . t Joel, cross-examined, declined that Markliam's allegation was an invention. He admitted that it was, a dirty piece of business on his part to , put Mills, an innocent man, into the affair, but lie pleaded that Sievier provoked him to discover means of prosecution. Sievier . testified that when Mills said that'he was able to get him a bit of money if Joel's name were excluded from the "Winning Post," he distinctly refused to accept Joel's money on such terms. He denied that he ever sent Mills to Joel. The boot was on the other leg. Sievier said he promised to keep Joel's name out of the paper-as a favour to Mills. Received 11.45 p.m., July 30th. LONDON, July 30. Siever described, the witnesses Bendon and Mills as perjurers, and 1 declared that Joel and Mills had conspired to manufacture evidence against him.