A BOGUS TELEGRAM.
| ! CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY. Per Press Association, Wellington, August 12. The jury disagreed at the Supremo Court to-day in the case oi James Hassall, charged with conspiring with 'some unknown person to defraud one Phillip Byrne, of Wellington, of various sums of money. In opening the case for the prosecution, Mr Meredith said that the charge was one of defrauding a bookmaker hy means of a bogus telegram. The most serious phase of the case was that the evidence would show that there must ’have been an accomplice in the Telegraph Office at Wellington. It had 1 been impossible to trace who that accomplice was, and the result was that suspicion rested on a great many people. In the present case, no telegram bad been sent from Creymouth, yet [messages purporting to have come from Grevmoutii were found in Ernie's letter box at Hie Wellington Post .(Hfice. The defence was a denial oi knowledge of anything about the telegram in question. A new trial was ordered for next Monday.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 88, 13 August 1915, Page 2
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171A BOGUS TELEGRAM. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 88, 13 August 1915, Page 2
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