A LOST CHANCE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 3, 4 July 1922, Page 7

A LOST CHANCE

PROBATIONER SENT TO GAOL. *

"He waa placed on probation, for three years, and he has not observed it for. one week. He is a racecourse guesser of the worst type." Thus, Chief Detective Kemp, in the Magistrate's Court to-day when referring to a young man named Raymond Woodward, who' was charged with breaking the terms of his release on probatibn, obtaining £2 at Taihape by means of a false pretence, and trespassing on the Trentham Racecourse. Woodward pleaded guilty to all charges. Chief Detective Kemp said that on 13th June the accused was-rn Taihape, and he chummed up with a man named Ferdinand Kregherl On the strength that he had £5 coining to him, ho secured £2 from Kr3_rher, whom he gave an order ou the Post Office Savings Bank. This order was not honoured. On 21st June, Woodward was in Hastings, and ho was fc-und there by. Racecourse Inspector Black, who ordered him off the course. On Ist May last he had been fined £10 for trespassing on- the, Trentham racecourse, but this warning had not had any effect on him. His system of working on tlie racecourse was to make a, friend of some man, offer to collect his dividend, and then disappear. The Chief Detective said that the ( man had been given every ohance, and it -would be futilel to waste any further sympathy on him. The.Magistrate (Mr. F. K. Hunt), sentenced Woodward to three months' imprisonment on the . false, pretences charge, fined him £10, in default two months in gaol, for trespassing on the racecourse, and remanded him for a, week' on the charge of breaking the terms of his probation. "You had better send him to the Supreme Court to.be dealt with on the original' oharg© of forgery," said the Magistrate to the Police. "He's not a man for probation at all."