ROBINSON'S MISTAKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 224, 21 September 1928, Page 15

ROBINSON'S MISTAKE.

OFFERED DETECTIVE A SET.

FOUND HIM "QUITE WILLING."

(By Telegraph.-^Own Correspondent.)

CHRISTCHURCH, this day.

Having offered a "double chart" to Detective-Sergeant Young in a billiard saloon, Norman William Robinson found himself fined £4 to-day in the Police Court. Chief Detective Carroll said that accused had approached Detective-Sergeant Young for a bet. The detective-sergeant had visited a billiard saloon and happened to be sitting next to accused, who, after producing a "double chart" and offering it to the man on his other side, invited the detective to have a bet. "The sergeant was quite willing to have a bet," continued the chief detective, amid suppressed laughter. "He took the card and asked what the odds were. He was told that they were £4 to 1/. Thirty-two bets were already on the chart and if accused had Rot clear he would have cleared about £50. He has been under suspicion for some time." Mr. Sargent, who appeared for accused, objected to this last remark. The chief detective continued that what he was about to say might be in accused's favour. When he knew that he had approached a detective he said that he had "made a — fool of himself.'*