JOCKEY INNOCENT.
CHARGE OF THEFT WITHDRAWN. NERVE-RACKING ORDEAL. When the New Zealand jockey Francis McGovern appeared at the Paddington Police Court Sydney, charged with theft of jewellery worth £2400 from a house at Point Piper, one of the fashionable localities the police had no evidence to offer and he was discharged. 11 it’s been rather a nerve-racking ordeal,” said McGovern afterwards, “ but I suppose I must grin and bear it. My father was dreadfully upset over the affair, and as he came over from New Zealand to be present at the Court it has cost a heap of money. Friends have advised me to sue the State for wrongful arrest, but what’s the use? The-chief thing for me is that my innocence has been established. It would probably be a case of sending good money after bad if i look action against the Government.” McGovern said that his arrest arose out of his having accepted a present of a pair of binoculars from an acquaitnance on the wharf before his boat had sailed. The glasses were portion of the loot from the Point Piper robbery. "I'll be more careful when accepting presents in future,” added Mc-
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18168, 5 November 1930, Page 6
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196JOCKEY INNOCENT. Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18168, 5 November 1930, Page 6
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