BETTING BY TELEGRAM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1034, 23 April 1912, Page 2

BETTING BY TELEGRAM.

CONSPIRACY CHARGE

Pauikrston, April 22

At the Police Court this morning, Douglas Munro and Edward Bargeut, employed at the Dougburu Post Office, were charged that they did conspire to defraud William Scott and Henry Martindale. trading together at Wellington under the style of Scott and Martindale, of certain moneys, namely, £3O.

Detective Siddels stated that one of the accused had been at the Wanganui races, and had got into telephonic communication with the other accused at Dong burn immediately after a race, telling him the name of the winning horse, Dady Moutoa, and the latter ante-timed a telegraph message to Scott and Martindale, backing the horse. Frederick Perrin, a post office official from the General Post Office Wellington, produced a telegram containing an instruction to back Dady Moutoa in her first start at Wanganui. The telegram would have to pass through the Palmerston North office, it was timed 12.55. Munro subsequently made a written statement, stating that the matter had been prearranged between himself and Baigent. Donald Robbins, assistant secretary to the Wanganui Jockey Club, stated that the first race at Wanganui started at eight minutes past twelve, and was won by Dady Moutoa. She paid £ls dividend on the totalisator. Henry Martindale, of Scott and Martindale, Wellington, asked if his firm received the telegram in question, declined to answer on the ground that he might incriminate himself.

Both accused reserved their defence, and entered a plea of “not guilty.” They were committed lor trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court. Bail was allowed in their own recognisances of each, and two sureties in each case of £SO each.