THE JOEL-SIEVIER CASE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9155, 31 July 1908, Page 5

THE JOEL-SIEVIER CASE.

EVIDENCE OF A BOOKMAKER. Received July 30, 5.20 a.m. LONDON, July 29. Mills, a "betting commissioner," testified that he considered that Joel played him a dirty trick in getting him to play a part and in setting a trap for Sievier. Joel, cross-examined, declared that Mr Mai'kham'a allegation was an invention. He admitted that it was a dirty piece of business on his part to put Mills—an innocent man —into the affair, but pleaded that Sievier had provoked him to discover a means of commencing a prosecution.

It was alleged by Mr Markham, Liberal M.P., for Mansfield Diviskn of Notts, that Joel had offered him £IO,OOO in 1902, to suppress a question in the House of Commins relating to Joel's connection with the Imperial Cold Storage Company and an Army meat contract.

DEFENDANT IN THE BOX,

LONDON, July 29. The defendant, Robert Sievier, testified that when Mills said he would he able to get him a bit of money if Joel's name was excluded from the "Winning Post," he distinctly refused to accept Joel's money on such terms. Ha denied that he had ever sent Mills to Joel; "the boot was on the other kg." Sievier said he had promised t'< keep Joel's name out of the paper as a favour to Mills.