DETECTIVE ASKED TO BET

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 302, 21 September 1928, Page 11

DETECTIVE ASKED TO BET

UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, September 20. Having offered a double chart to De-tective-Sergeant Young in a billiard saloon, Norman William Robinson found himself in the Magistrate s Court to-day. He was charged that on September 14 lie published a double chart for betting on the New Zealand Trotting Cup and the New Zealand Cup. Accused pleaded guilty. Chief-Detective Carroll said that accused had approached Detective-Ser-geant Young for a bet. The detective sergeant had visited a billiard saloon, and happened to be sitting next to accused, who after producing the double chart and offered it to a man on hisother side, invited the detective to have a bet. "The detective-sergeant was quite willing to have a bet,” continued the chief detective amid suppressed laughter. "He took the card and asked what the odds were. He was told that they were £4 to Is. Thirty-two bets were already on the chart, and if accused had got clear he would have cleared about £5. He has been under suspicion for some time.” Mr. Sargent, who appeared for accused. objected to the last remark. The chief-detective continued that what he was about to say might be in accused’s favour. When he knew that he had approeched a detective he said that he had “made a blank fool of himself.” Robinson was fined £4, with costs.