BOOKMAKING ALLEGED.
CHRISTCHURCH POLICE RAID,
WALSH AND COX CHARGED,
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, this day
The trial was begun in the Supreme Court to-ffay of Patrick Walsh and Robert Michael Cox, on charges of bookmaking. Cox was further charged with interfering with the working of the telephono in Walsh's house, when the police made the raid. Mr. O'Leary, of Wellington, represented the prisoners. A detective described the finding of betting cards, etc., in the house. The Crown solicitor intimated that he did not desire a conviction against Cox in regard to the charge of interfering with the telephone. Detective-Sergeant Young was crossexamined at length by Mr. O'Leary. "What made you think there was an office there fitted up for bookulaking?" counsel asked. Detective-Sergeant Young: I had reasonable grounds for believing it and I did believe it. "Were you armed?"—" How do'you mean ?" "With a firearm?" —"I had a combination axe and jemmy." "For what purpose?"—ln case I needed
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 39, 15 February 1929, Page 8
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