WORTHINGTON TRIAL
PATHETIC STATEMENT BY ACCUSED. By Telegraph—Press Vssociation—Copyr g> t Melbourne, Oct. 27. Tho Worthington tiial was continued to day. Accused made a lengthy statement in his own defence, to the effect that Madame Juveny became interested and entered into bis plans. She gave, and did not lend him money to assist his work.
Describing his own troubles and worries, Worthington several times broko down and wept.
In the course of his statement he said that from 1895 to 1899 his friends in New Zealand supplied him with means of living and sent him sums of from £lO to .£SO, aggregating thousands of pounds. He had been using funds received from America to pay oft" his New Zealand friends. The case is unfinished.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 556, 28 October 1902, Page 2
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