SEQUEL TO A PROSECUTION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 109, 4 November 1910, Page 7

SEQUEL TO A PROSECUTION.

ALLEGED AIDING OF STREETBETTING. At the Magistrate's Court fchiß morning, before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., a labourer named Terence O'Hagan was charged on favo separate informations — (1) with using Willis-street .on the 23rd September for the purpose of betting, contrary to the city bylaws ; (2) with committing an act on the Bamc date for the purpoEe of aiding William Ham, a bookmaker, to commit an offence, namely, making a bet in VVil-lis-street. O'Hagan \j;as called as principal witness in a prosecution against William Ham on Friday last for alleged street-betting, but owing to his deafness, loss of memory, and persistent assertions that he recollected nothing of what, it is alleged, he had himself admitted in a written statement to the police, the proseoution collapsed, and the information against Ham bad- to be dismissed. Mr. P. W. Jackßon, who appeared on behalf of O'Hagan tc-day, said that he had only just been instructed in the case, and he asked for a week's adjournment. Chief-Detective Broberg stated that the summons had baen served on O'Hagan some days ago, and that defendant had had ample notice. An adjournment, however, Would not seriously inconvenience the prosecution, and he offered no objection. • • The case was accordingly adjourned by consent till the- 14th November.