AFTER THE RACE.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18591, 16 January 1926, Page 15

AFTER THE RACE.

BACKING a certainty. JVIKED POSTMARK : FINE £lO. (PRESS A«BOCIATIOJf -TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, January 15. An rniusfinl prosecution arising out a bet with a bookmaker was taken the Magistrate's Court, when J. A. ? „. nt w as charged with making a Baric on an envelope resembling a were that the acA wrote to a bookmaker in Christc',ise r .. h informing him that he would t*rkiii£ a certain horse at Hawke's ? races The accused was called away ?*m home, and during his absence the Ptmaker telegraphed him to forward put on the horse. Accused did f receive the message till he returned ?°L which was. after the meeting Keen held. He enclosed £5 in an s'relope and posted .it to the bo o T<ker from Wanganui. but reproduced the envelope a copy of- a stamp of Y Ruetihi Post Office, which made it ~® f4r as though the letter had been 'Jjjed before the race meeting had been bookmaker observed the two post s. e stamps, and complained to tho Sort office officials, with the result that jh B bet MS dishonoured iocnued, who pleaded guilty, was