UNUSUAL CASE IN COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 965, 4 November 1910, Page 5

UNUSUAL CASE IN COURT.

SHOOTINQ PRIZE DISPUTE. ALLEGED FRAUDULENT SCORE BY A RIFLEMAN, CHARGE OF FAUSE PRETENCES (Roc. November 3., ?.55 p,m.) . Sydnoy, November 8. W. J. Piggott, of the Tramways' Kitia Club, has been charged at the Police Court with having falsely, pretended, to the secretary of the Wiiie Association that ho scored 49 points at th? 10P0 yards' range in the qompetition , for the King's Prize at the recent riflo meeting,'and thereby obtained iSlOi), with intent to defraud. After having been proclaimed the winner and "chaired," Piggott. reasivua J-lw, but afterwards returued the mpney to-the association, ;■-■'•. The arresting ponstable produced Pig, gott's written , statement,.wherein he confessed that he did not shoot at the thousands yards' range, but declared that he was sitting behind" a mound when an unknown man asked, to we his shooting card, and marked in a score, telling him to hand it in, and that it would be all right. ' Piggott aisp alleged that lie had. made a bet with the man to whom ho hiiuded the oard, and who filled the card to two pounds to nothing that ho would win the : Kjngfs Prize. 1 Pjggott: afterwards wrpte to tl)e secretary/of the association, asking him to k-eup the matter out of the papers for the sake of his innocent ones at home. A \vitness deposed that l)e mpt Piggott by arrangement after, he (Piggott) had told him that he liad won. fairly and squarely. "He agreed to attend the inquiry, and give evidence in support of Piggptt's plajm that lie made the score, the case W!is : adi{H)rnec| for a week, to allow, the defending: counsel time to oonsider the best, course to adopt. ,