The DUNEDIN TOTALISATOR CLUB CASE. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, Tuesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1773, 15 November 1883, Page 2

The DUNEDIN TOTALISATOR CLUB CASE. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, Tuesday.

Duxeihn, Tuesday. At the Police Court to-day, before Mr Carew, R.M., the charges arising out of the raid made by the police on the alleged totalisator club, were entered into. The case of Thomas Barnett was first called. The defendant was charged, on remand, with having on November sth, at Dunedin, " unlawfully had the care and management of a certain game house, situated in Dow-hng-street, being room > and premises known as T.itteisail's Club, contiary to the Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1881." Mr Haggit, Oiu\.n Picseeutor, conducted the case for the police. He made a lengthy address, de&ciibing the mode of working thedfe machine, and the evidence intended to bo& t» ought forwaid in proof of the case. The instrument which was produced in Court was not, he said, exactly a totalisator but was on the same principle. The hoises' name? were lepresented by letters of the alphabet; V I Z represented Maitiui-Henry, and against that horse was registered the figure nine. A person intending to invest did not sign his name, but used Iris registered number as a member of the club. Upon the present defendant himself tliero were found four cheques, two of which were signed Bela Bela and Co., and a letter from a person signing himself Mark Cohen, requesting that his name might be put on the totalisator, for a certain number of chances on a hoise called Sardius, and referring also to divers betting transactions. Of the four cheques just alluded to two were signed by Bela and Co.,onebyS.Kohn,anclonealsoby Bela Bela and Co., but not filled up. Asa cheque it would be proved, by comparison, that the handwriting was that of Barnett, the defendant. It would also be shown that I3arnctt paid the rent, that some members of the club had paid their subsci iptions to Barnett personally, and that Barnett had, on seveial occasions, paid the lent of the looms used, sometimes by cash, sometimes by cheque-? signed by Bela Bela and Co. The detectives gave evidence as to entering the premises, in which they found a copy of the Gaining and Lotteries Act, eight packs of cards, apparatus for lnarkingfl tickets, and two books, one a member's^ ticket book, and the other a register. On defendant was found a letter from Mark Cohen, m which was tho following : "Please rogi^ter on the machine one on Sardius, one 011 ytockwell, one on Claptrap, and thiee on Fust Demon." Other evidence showed that tho tenant of tho piemises appeared on the landlord's books as "J. Hinchcliffe, Einpuo Hotel ", but that "no such person could be found or was known at the hotel. .For the defence, Mr Solomon aigued that tlioic was no case to answer, but his Worship decided thcie was. The defence will lit 1 heard on Thursday, when 1(J witnesses will be called.