BETTING TELEGRAMS.
COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE, “SUSPICIONS OF A TOM CAT.” CPcr Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The passage of betting telegrams through the Telegraph Office came in for sorne comment in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. In a case against a man for allegedly betting with Alfred Vivian Whitta" a telegram reading “Roy. Mundane, Lioinius” was produced. Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M.. said: “In my ignorance I thought that telegrams like this were barred.”
Mr B rown. who conducted the prosecution, said that apparently there were some officers of the Telegraph Department who “winked” at .such messages. The Magistrate: “Some of the telegrams would arouse the suspicions of a tom cat.” •
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 10926, 26 May 1927, Page 4
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