CONCERNING A BET
MAN CONVICTED OF THEFT. Oamaru, March 30. A case concerning a bet on a racecourse was heard in the Oamaru Magistrate’s Court to-day. Nicholas Lynch, second-hand dealer, of Invercargill, met Arthur Harrison Henderson on the Oamaru racecourse on the first day of the recent meeting, and confidently handed him £lO to put on Rapier. Meeting Henderson the next day, Henderson told Lynch he had lost the money while playing poker. Lynch consulted the police, and today Henderson was convicted of stealing £lB 5s fid. The Magistrate said Lynch deserved no sympathy, and he would not allow him expenses. He convicted accused and ordered him to come up for sentence if called upon within two years. The money, is to he refunded. The sentence earned with it prohibition from going on racecourses for the period named.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3620, 31 March 1927, Page 2
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138CONCERNING A BET Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3620, 31 March 1927, Page 2
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