GAMING CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 279, 17 April 1913, Page 5

GAMING CASE.

RACE CARDS AND TOTE BETTING

By Telegraph —Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night.

In the case against Peter Grant, charged with having assisted to publish a betting chart without imprint, Mr. Cassidy, counsel for defendant, submitted that there was no case against Grant, and in quoting the Act bearing on the case counsel contended that the Act was framed to deal with a different class of case and of a' different nature. In this case, he said, there was no breach of the Gaming Act, and there was no evidence that Grant assisted in the printing of the cards. The letter containing the card was stamped by a machine which the Post Office had leased to Burnett and Grant, and counsel submitted that this was the. only thing that connected Grant with the card; but this fact did not prove that Grant had assisted in printing the cards. Counsel then quoted several decisions on eases similar to the one before the court. At best, he held, the police produced only a shred of suspicion against Grant.

His Worship reserved his decision. A similar charged against W. Whelan

was adjourned, pending the decision in t.lio rasp against Grant. Win. John Boon was charged that, being a bookmaker, he did bet on the Tviccitrton racecourse on March 24. Hood pleaded not guilty. After hearing the evidence of the police and the racecourse detectives the case was adjourned in order that one witness (a racecourse detective)" could produce his books in support of his statement that Boon was a tote bettor.