ALLEGED FRAUD.
JURY FAILS TO AGREE. (nuss ASSOCIATION' TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, August 12. In the Supremo Court, tho jury disagreed in the case of James Hhssall, charged with conspiring with some unknown person to defraud one Philip Byrne, of Wellington, of various sums of money. In opening the case for the prosecution, Mr Meredith said tho charge was one of defrauding a bookmaker by means of a bogus telegram. The most serious phase of the case was that the evidence would show that _ there must have been an accomplice in the telegraph office in Wellington. It had been impossible to trace who that accomplice was, and the result was that suspicion rested on a gfeat many people. Accused and Byrne had had previous business transactions, and in Slay last the latter received a telegram booking a wager on a horse at the Wanganui races. The telegram purported to come from Greymouth, but none such was sent from there. Later during the Auckland races, Bvrne received telegrams from Greymouth making beta on a horse that had just won. Becoming suspicious he asked for a repeat, and found that no such telegram had been sen-. The defence was a denial of knowledge of anything about the telegram m A U new Ol trial was ordered for nest Monday. ___________
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15356, 13 August 1915, Page 5
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215ALLEGED FRAUD. Press, Volume LI, Issue 15356, 13 August 1915, Page 5
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