BREACH OF TRUST
APPRENTICE RIDER’S LAPSE By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, July Ip. 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 Magistrate’s 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,” the 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 hotels, making the acquaintance of several strangers, and he soon became intoxicated. Next morning he found that 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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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20781, 16 July 1937, Page 8
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186BREACH OF TRUST Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20781, 16 July 1937, Page 8
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