BOOKMAKER'S "EXALTED IDEAS."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7718, 21 January 1905, Page 4

BOOKMAKER'S "EXALTED IDEAS."

A bookmaker recently appeared at Marylebonc Police Court for disordly conduct. While in custody he said he was going to draw £BO,OOO from the bank to give to charitable institutions. His father was one of the Queen's watermen, and when he died at' tho age of 150 the Duke of Cam'i»idge, and the whdUe of the Royal Family followed him to the grave, the cortego covering a distance of thirty miles), and including, forty pantechnicon vans'of floral tributea He was going to erect a monument to Dan Leno on tho Thames Embankment, after the model of the Tower llridgo, the whole to be made of gold. *He also stated that- he had a> butcher's business at Norwood, where he had employed 150,000 men. He possessed a yacht hai]|f a mile long, and , a motor caii covered| with gold, 100 yards long. Dr. Scott ami Dr. Ezeßiel Boyd both reported to the magistrate as to the condition of the prisoner's mind, the former stating, inter alia, that he appeared to havx very exalted ideas. In the end the prisoner was taken to the workhouse by direction of the magistrate.