Some Work Supplied

NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 3

Some Work Supplied

nEFENDANT: I can't get work. U Mr. Hunt: If you don't get it, you'll work for six months up above. . Counsel: He's not a .trier. S.M.: Well, we'll try him now.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIHIIMIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIimiIIIIIH set of celluloid dies which could talk several languages. Before the Boxing Day Handicap at Bundy, Collins, the owner of Urgency, kept a close watch on his horse. *Just about the time the horses were due. to leave for the course he saw MacPherson approach the stall m which Urgency was stabled, and after caressing the horse offered him the crushed thistle. Snatching the stuff away with one hand, Collins clouted the doper fair on the button with the, other, and having knockejd him down, then sat on him and yelled "Police." Pleading guilty to the broken down charge of having been found In the stable for an unlawful purpose, MacPherson igot out lightly with three months. ' He admitted it was his intention to give the horse dope thistle, and told the old one about a stranger m the street offering him a "tenner" to do so. .The P.M. said he** regarded the offence ■ as very serious. Defendant was a pawn m the game; the hired servant of someone who had something to gain. The bookmakers at the back of this cinpinjj of fancied candidates had something to gain. : '•?:■/;„. ■-■■'• ■: -■ , ■-'-•■•-- -,-»: A % v. Should one of them ever be cap- ; Sutured witli'-.-tbe opo.da,' as ;!.was ; the .' case with MacPherson, portion of the punishm.ent should be to make -. them eat ' a '■ skinful of the dope handed out to the horses.