TELEGRAPHED BETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 246, 17 October 1929, Page 23

TELEGRAPHED BETS.

FRAUD CHAE.GES DISMISSED. "GRAVEST SUSPICION," SAYS S.M. : (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE, Wednesday. The hearing of the case in which William McKinnon, indent agent, and Wallace Fountain and Charles Thomas Clifford Hands, telegraphists, were charged that on August 24 they conspired to defraud Arthur Yeo, of Napier, bookmaker, of £120, by means of a forged telegram, came to an abrupt end in the Magistrate's Court to-day when, on resuming after lunch, the magistrate, Mr. P. H. Harper, intimated that in view of the nature of the evidence and its similarity to that in the previous case, which was dismissed, it was useless to proceed further. Detective McLeod said he would offer no further evidence and the informations were dismissed. ' The magistrate said the gravest suspicion rested upon the three men, but he thought more than that was necessary to send them to trial. He did not see- that any good could be arrived at by proceeding further, as he was afraid there was nothing more than the gravest suspicion.