THE BETTING EVIL.
CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, -Last Night. The jury disagreed at the Supreme Court to-day ii\ the ea-e of .Tames Hassail, charged with conspiring- with some unknown person to defraud 1 " one I'UiHip llyi'ne, of Wellington, of various Minis of money. ]n opening the ease for the prosecution, Mr. Meredith said that the charge was one of defrauding a bookmaker by means of a bogus telegram. The most serious phase of the ca.se was that the evidence would show (hat there must have been an aecomplhe in the Telegraph O/liec in Wellington. It had been impossible to tratc who that ac-eoinipli.-i! was, and the result was that suspicion rested on a great many people. In the present case, no telegram had been sent from ("ireymouth. yet me-sages purporting to have come from Oreymouth were found in llryne's letter box at the Wellington Post Oli'iee. The defence was a. denial of knowledge of anything about the telegram in question. A new trial was ordered for next Monday.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 August 1915, Page 5
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171THE BETTING EVIL. Taranaki Daily News, 13 August 1915, Page 5
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