ALLEGED BOGUS TELEGRAMS.
WELLINGTON,' August 12. In the Supreme Court; James Hassail was charged with having in May. last conspired with some person unknown to defraud Philip Bryne, a bookmaker, by means of a bogus telegram. The Crown Prosecutor said that the serious phase of the case was that there must be an accomplice in the telegraph office at Wellington. Accused and Byrne had had previous business transactions, and in ■ May last the latter received ; a telegram booking a wager on a horse at the Wanganui races. The telegram purported to come from G-rey-mouth. No such telegram was. sent from there. Later, during the Auckland races, Byrno received a telegram from Grey mouth making bets on a horse that had' just won. Becoming, suspicious he asked for a repeat, and found that no such telegram had been sent. The defence was. a denial of know-p----ledge of anything about the telegram in question. The jury disagreed and.a new trial was ordered for next Monday. : ■ W'». .'.-■
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8216, 13 August 1915, Page 8
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