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AN ECHO OF THE KEENE SALE. New York, November 10. There was an echo of the Keene sale of thoroughbreds in .Madison Square Garden last September when a complaint against George A. Bain, the auctioneer, came up for hearing Saturday before O. Grant Estcrbrook, president of the Board of Aldermen. The complaint was made by Ernst Plath, who claimed that his hid of ?!KJ0 for the weanling bay colt by Peter Pan .Mintcake was not accepted by the auctioneer, though he insisted it was the highest bid made, but that the colt was knocked down to Dr. J. T. Shannon, a Kentucky horseman, In spite of the fact that Plath and his partner contended they had made the bid, and the colt was not put up for resale, as is the rule when there is a dispute over a bid. Aaron Morris and Frederick Klein represented the complainant, whose evidence consisted chiefly of thi assertion that he bid the 00. His partner. Bernard Flynn. made a much better witness and gave evidence that lie made a vigorous protest when the auctioneer indicated that the successful bid had been made in another part of the garden. In this lie was corroborated by two newspaper men who were at the sale. George A. Bain was represented by Douglas B. Green, who contented himsalf with cross-examining the complainants witnesses. Tin? presentation of the auctioneers side of tin ease was reserved until Mr. Bain returns l New York in about a months time. Plath stated that when he went to pay for the colt his check was refused and that he was introduced to Dr. Shannon and told he might buy the colt from him.
