STOLEN OATS
CHARGE OF RECEIVING. DISMISSED BY MAGISTRATE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. A charge of having received 121 bushels of oats knowing them to have been clishonestly obtained was preferred against Percy Burgess, well-known trainer and jockey, in the Magistrate’s Court, Upper Hutt, yesterday. Mr Goulding, S.M.. said that the evidence did not tic up the matter sufficiently to show that the oats had been purchased by Burgess with any guilty knowledge. There was not a word in the open statement which Burgess volunteered to show that he knew where the oats really came from. The charge was dismissed. Mervyn Francis Reardon, labourer, aged 28, was admitted to probation for a year and ordered to make restitution on a charge of having stolen 121 bushels of oats, valued at £4 Is 3d, the property of Thomas Reginald George, horse trainer.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1940, Page 11
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