BOGUS BOOKMAKER

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 183, 2 August 1923, Page 4

BOGUS BOOKMAKER

1 BENJAMIN PLEADS QVtVtf OTHER TRIAL DEFERBJjJu There were quite a number of"ii ; pected happenings at the Supreme Si i this morning in connection wftfca! charges of conspiracy to defrani *a : false pretences (three charge*) j*eLJ2 against two young men, Reginald mm, and Trevor Leonard Richai/rw ningham. In the first instance theUwL prisoner failed to put in an app«J!!! when his name was sounded thrVmATl the courthouse (he was on b»55T»i Mr. Paterson, for the Crown, apoulj , his Honor, Mr. Justice HerdmuT 1» . warrant for hie arrest and eetrtatf <j his bail. His Honor had just cotuntd to this course when the prisoner n. brought into the court. PrepanMa was made to empanel the jnjy jS when prieonera were asked to Vletf Benjamin changed hie Lower Gfot answer and responded guilty. Hβ wu accordingly stood down for senteaeeutt Monday morning. The other prisoner, pleaded not guilty, but told hit Hoacr that his counsel had not appeared. ]fc iudge replied that the bminejg o f the Court could not be held u»- on tlk account, but when informed" that the counsel in question was ill, he agreed to nrisoner's request that he be givei „ opportunity to find another.' To tkk bis Honor consented, and the case «v stood down until the following O u btl been decided: The charge to which Benjamin plet&j •ruilty was the representation to a fa. mer hoMdav making in town that he w* a bookmaker, on which renresentatloi some €20 was obtained. Cuiminghua denied being an accomplice in this eriat.