A “SWELL” IN DIFFICULTIES.
At the Tokomairiro R.M. Court two \Ta ; tl° Ue rl ß t rlC(> l k had t0 appear before Mr Maitland .to slptw cause why ho had nnfsatished a judgment of nme guineas at ,d costs, obtained "gainst him by» v Mr Canstiot on October 27 last. la the course examination Badcock said he was a swell and out of luck j ust at present. He did not recollect owing plaintiff the money. Two years ago he receive-! money from Home under his father’s will; the event was im! pressed on i,is memory, because he went to s>-e the Melbourne Cup run, when Don Juan won io. I he first money he got was 14,000 - that went mostly on race-horses. Witness rccogmsi d the cheque ho had given, ou which he was sued ; but what he gave the cheque fcr he could not recollect. He had received from Nome* subsequently to tha 14.000,-nearly another 14,000,* he B up! posed He was a smgh man, and kept no bouse or servants. Things were in suc u a peculiar po Lion just now, that he did nob. khow what hj - had i u l what he had Z his credito's would allow him time to cet w4l, and remember he would settle his affairs, but taking him by the wool nr settled him. Ha had ugued a deed in the hoijnta l about a month ago, but could sw ar ha did noo know wbat ho signed. He want£ money to get little comforts and tvould W signed anything. The paper waa^UmfV hj» m P «vhC y d g&“ nxr« h «^
that property to E l ward Forbes to Beeure a sum of T,‘2ro. The <bc>’ovi f< r the Municipal Council of Milton killed him Defendant was sorry to say he knew a per son named Albert Larnach. sometime manager of the National Bank, Tom mairiro . . Forbes was some office fellow. He was not in the habit of botherijug bis !ie e‘ about that sort of fellow. Fori es came i... his bedside when he was half d ad. Me would not swear v. he', i cr c . ot be bad sai.i that he had only received LIOO our of th L2so—be might get himself in o trouble if he got admitting these kind of things. The money was given V> pick him off to Melbourne. . , Mr Monatt’s clerk used to come to him at the Ho pital, and chuck a five pound note at him occasionally. At pre sent he (Badcock) had no property hut his clothes Mr Taylor: “Then you have spent L 2,000 in two years, and yet had no establishment, and were a single man.” Badcock; * N T o estal hshment ! I had a deuced Hue establishment. The Carandinis were theie one night, and wo had lots of champagne ” Mr Maitland made an order for the payment of tbe debt within a week, or, in default, a m'mtb’s imprisonment.
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Evening Star, Issue 3743, 20 February 1875, Page 2
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495A “SWELL” IN DIFFICULTIES. Evening Star, Issue 3743, 20 February 1875, Page 2
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