SPORTING.

Shannon News, 11 May 1923, Page 2

SPORTING.

DORA DERRY CASE. SOME STARTLING EVIDENCE. DUNEDIN, Last Night. There was a surprise in the hearing yesterday afternoon of a charge against Janies Proctor Nicholson, who pleaded not guilty to false pretences in connection with ••Ringing In” the trotting mare Dorta, Derby. The surprise was the change in the evidence of the chief witness, Archibald Campbell Sim, who had already pleaded guilty to a similar charge. Sim stated that he bought a mare for £25, and he and Nicholson arranged to buy a better mare resembling the first one, Dora Derby being selected. To complete the resemblance Dora Derby’s tail was docked and her ear split. The first horse was then destroyed. Witness further stated that his brother sold the mare to a drover, but she was got back and destroyed,

because rumours were afloat. Witness was proceeding to describe the drover. His Honour: ‘‘You had better not ' emulate Nicholson in his description ;of the imaginary Davis. Was there I any such man as drover ? ” After some hesitation, witness answered in the negative; reaffirming, however, that the mare was dead and that it was shot by him last February. The case then adjourned.