PECULIAR BETTING CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 10 February 1914, Page 5

PECULIAR BETTING CASE.

1 A WOMAN INFORMANT. ' y M t HUSBAND A HOSTILE > TAKES HIS WIFE'? NOim*'" 'Jf 1 By Telegraph.-Preas Association. ' >fl • , , Wellington, Last Nhjfct. '"M A rather extraordinary revelatloawM :S| made in the Magistrate's Court tbil.Jl afternoon in the case in which H. ji«- ;M tindale was charged with publishing ftl'llS Wellington a document containing * 4 ffß notification on behalf of Scott and Mar-«| tindale as to betting on horse raw* to 1H be run at Auckland and WoodviHe *W- 'ffl ing December. jju Chief Detective Brobcrg statedy&at |§i the principal witness for the proMCtt'Jffi tion, a woman from Levin, had reported.Jf| to him that her notes bearing «• ijH ease had been taken from her byiwr-fl husband. The position was a StOstJS peculiar one, and rather serious l for tkerjlH police case, as he had good reawt to^H believe that the husband was a aojttUe.JuH witness. '"^B I At the suggestion of the Chief ©#«-'j|| tive, the husband was called, and ht'ad- 411 mitted to the Magistrate, withmit My. '||| hesitation, that he had taken the notes.,'{|ffl "This is most unusual," said His Wor-'j|B ship. "I can do nothing. I liin-Ui'S power to make him return the note*. |P| However, 1 it Is a matter for himself,' and.-j««| he would be well advised to retulfn'w '3fl| notes immediately." ' j§H Chief Detective Broberg: Will 9K?£n warn him that he must prodOM £ltti-'|Sfl notes to-morrow* If not, he will frbpVjn destroy theai before then. '-iyjß ! His Worship (to witness): Iteawwier^fffl you must produce those notes to-»frv',ifH row, when this case comes on for IUIM^JaM in'jSwJPo you understand * )J|SJ Witnesi: I.understand what you MJyiJifflH