CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 291, 6 December 1920, Page 7

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

TOTALTSATOR CHANGE. —^—_— I TIE-TRIAL OF CLERKS. ! — j: Two Avondnle totalisntor clorks named i' V*\lliam Tobin and Samuel Ward stood I ' their second trial at the Supreme Court j ' to-day on charg?s involving the alleged I theft" of £9 from the proprietors of tintotalisator on October 2. Mr. Justice | : Cooper presided. The prosocution wa? conducted by Mr. I!. P. Hunt, instructed by the Crown Prosecutor, and the ! J accused were defended by Mr. A. Moody.]' On November 24, on the occasion of the first trial, the jury failed to agree. There were half-a-dozon alternative ] charges against the two men. The ease j' for the prosecution was that Tobin accepted a £10 note from an investor at |a £1 window and failed to give any I change. Subsequently the note was found in the possession of Ward, who was Tobin's stamper. Evidence was given in support of the prosecution by Mr. Harry J. Hayr, part proprietor of the machine, by a racecourse detective, and by the man who tendered the £10 note. The investor stated that he received the note from the detfetive. and did not know its denomination when he presented it. The defence was a denial of guilt, and an assertion that Ward had been handed the money to hold until the owner claimed the £9. The case is proceeding.