HORSE BUYER’S SURPRISE
MILK-CARTER FOR A PACER FASTEST EVER PROVES A FRAUD. CRIMINAL ACTION FOLLOWS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Dee. 1, 11.10 p.m. Melbourne, Dec. 1. At the Criminal Court, Percy William Davidson was found guilty of obtaining £9O from Lionel Percey Ford, of Hikurangi. New Zealand, with intent to defraud. The prosecution alleged that Davidson contracted to sell a thoroughbred three-year-old trotting filly, sired by the fastest paeer ever imported into Australia, to Ford for £BO. The latter cabled the money and received in return for t a 22-year-old milk-cart horse valued at 50s. Davidson stated from the dock that when he advertised a filly for sale ne knew where he could buy her, but when he had made the bargain with Ford he was unable to obtain her and purchased the other horse in the sale ring. The liorse showed great speed when tried and he shipped it to New Zealand. Davidson then wrote to Ford stating that no would refund his money if Fold was not satisfied. Davidson, who was remanded for sentence, admitted a conviction for forgery in New Zealand.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1926, Page 11
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