REMARKABLE CASE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 718, 18 January 1910, Page 6

REMARKABLE CASE.

A LITTLE; BOOK TEAT-COULD NOT BE FOUND. (By,. Telegraph.—Press l Association.) 1 -. Dunedhij January 17. A : case,.' possessing ■ pome remarkable features.; camebefore the Magistrate's Court' to-day, when A.. T. .ChodowsM' proceeded aßaSnst "Lowry Appleson, for the ■recovery of £55, the amount of a promissory note. Alter hearing the evidence, the. magistrate (Mt. Widdowscm), . gave judgment for the plaintiff for the full amount with costß,: remarking that some, of . the-..defendantfs. stories were very extraordinary. Chodowsihi then ..'. proceeded, against Eribena Haigan for, '.£B, alleged; tn be : due for goods sold-and.delivered. ( ,Defendant produced ' a - receipt ;for' "the ~ 'amount claimed,' and Appleson,: who .' was until: recently, plaintifffs partner, - admitted receiving the., sum on behalf:of the ; firm. Judgment was. then given for. defendant. In the; afternoon, 1 counsel : for. ChodowsM applied :' for, an order requiring „ Appleson' to 1 appear, and' submit to examination"' as to any- debts owing by Kim. •' The magistrate granted the order, andAppleson was , examined at,, considerable. Mength. Ho admitted receiving JC2OO from plaintiff on December .20, and.£l7 10s.' last, week from 1 another, person, J but saitl 'he had ■.only, '£3 lis. 'Gd. left now. The .whole of the .balance ..Had been,'losfc ,in betting, on bookmakers. : Hi)' ,said;he', was', quite.: unable to remember the -name. ; of-'any ~'persoh, with whom'he made ,a bei or tbo name 'of anyhorsoonwliich he. : betted,,;butj,a%ered:,to 'the.stoiy ; that he had lost about; iJKOin this,.way',during the '.past three weeks, v The' balance; had' been spent ';mr pA^g: : debts,''but : he ,was unable. to'' give, the- name ! of. any'. person ; to.whom paid .money. He had a little: book at home. in . which he had made entries, .'ahd.be \ could f :' have ' t answered questions from that ' ■ \

; .The.-,Cfet;then-'an.'order re'<riri> ing Appleson ..to.: proceed, to: : his. loctansp; .with'the CourtbailiiT, ahd bnng the book to the Cotirt immediately. •' ; Appleson returned half an houT later," and :said he'had searched a' portmanteaui elsewhere-in, the presence ' of : the bailiff,, but' could not- find the book. He ' thought perhaps : the • landlady's ; 'children had taken it. Ho then he remembered having'paid: .£4- to each of two men 'in payment of debts. . Atailor ' named. Morns received JSi, and a man- named Mackay Jl4 forbreaking-in: a horse: and. ■.trap hire., . ~..:v The' magistrate, interjected: Of,course,' I. cannot'.believe, a word' this - witness says!S • Application' for : .immediate 'teecntion .of judgment- was made, with, a view to proceedings.. in '.bankruptcy. and • calling defendant to ..account.-, An' .order-.was made as asked. - .-