PICKING A "MORAL"
A PIOKON-PLUCKING SCHEME, j When Trevor Leonard Richard Cunningham enmp before Mr. Justice Stringer at the Supreme Court to-day i on the charge of conspiracy to defraud,! Mr. C'ahill. instructed by Mr. W. »'. | Fennell, submitted that (ho whole thin" had been engineered by Benjamin. The hitter had already pleaded guilty to the charge. Mr. Meredith detailed how tlip pair had interested a man' holiday-making from the country in., race fixtures. Benjamin was represented to be a hookmaker, and the brave one eventually risked a '"pony -, on Quest, which was re-1 commended "as a moral." Counsel said that the only evidence that the pair had split the £20 was ; that of Benjamin. Counsel concluded i with the submission that Cunningham was purely the introducing party, and ■ in his eyes the transaction was bona fide. i The jury returned a verdict of guilty, | and sentence was deferred until Wed- ; nesofky.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 185, 4 August 1923, Page 9
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