THE TROTTING SCANDAL.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17981, 26 January 1924, Page 16

THE TROTTING SCANDAL.

FIVE ACCUSED IN COURT

A FURTHER REMAND. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday "William "Williamson, "William Percy Capes, Charles Hopwood Capes, James Golding and Walter Medley Hulston, appeared before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., charged that they did conspire with "each other by fraudulent, means to defraud the Southland Racing Club by entering a trotting horse named Willie .Lincoln in the Oreti Harness Trot at the Southland Racing Club's Meeting held at Invercargill on January 2nd, 1924, under a false name, i.e.. Look Out.

William Williamson was separately charged that, on January 2nd, 1924, at Invercargill, with intent to defraud, he 'did attempt to obtain from the Southland Racing Club the sum of £153, by representing that a certain trotting horse, Willie Lincoln, was a trotting horse known as Look Out. Chief-Detective A. Cameron, who prosecuted for the Police, asked that the five accused should be further remanded to appear at Christchurch on Friday, February Ist. Mr A. B. Hebbs, who represented the accused, objected to a further remand. He said that the police had informed tlio Dunedin Magistrate that the final remand would be to Dunedin on January 31st, when the police would be prepared to go on with the case.

Chief-Detective Cameron: Thnt is not so, your Worship. We have .later information, and I therefore ask for the remand. On February Ist the hearing day will probably be fixed. His Worship remanded the accused to appear at Christchurch on February Ist.

Counsel applied for bail. In view of so many remands, he requested thirl the bail should be made as light as possible.

The Magistrate said the number of remands was not the test of the quantum of bail, but the seriousness of the offences. „ Chief-Detective Cameron said all the accused except Hulston, who was arrested on Thursday, had been admitted to bail.

JS?s Worship admitted each to bail, self in £2OO and one surety of the sd,me amount. On the second charge against Williamson, a separate surety would be necessary-.

Mr Hobbs: Is it possible for (hiding to be admitted to bail on his own recognisance? Ho is only a labouring man} and he was bailed on his own recognisance in Dunedin. The Magistrate: No. He must find a 6urety. When the men had been remanded his Worship found that the information so far as Charles Hopwood Capes was concerned had a technical fault. Therefore a fresh information was prepared and the men were a pram "brought before him and formally charged with it and were remanded to appear on Friday, February Ist. \