CAR COMPETITION

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 50, 1 March 1937, Page 10

CAR COMPETITION

FINAL STAGES

SUPREME COURT TRIAL

Final addresses were made to the Jury in the Supreme Court this morning in the car competition case, and Mr. Justice Johnston summed up after the luncheon adjournment.

> Six days have been occupied by the ihearing of the five charges of false made jointly against Harold •Faii-child, Pobar, an agent, Bertram Egley, a company secretary, and Hanlath Noel Blake' Marshall, a company director.

'^'The principal charge was that be-tvj-een June 22, 1935, and March 31, 19116, the accused conspired with one another in Wellington and other places to->defraud such persons as should be induced to purchase tickets in a skill test competition by falsely representing\ that a. car was available as a prize, witjiout disclosing thY fact that the carl was subject to an instrument by wayl, of security, securing the principal sum',of £450, and by falsely representing that the car was new and being kept; sealed. There were four other charges that the three accused, by the same; false pretences as stated in the first ' charge, obtained from John Leitch 2s 6d, from John Johnston Henderson 6d on two occasions, and from Henry* Gastein sums totalling £1. The) Crown Prosecutor (Mr. W. H. Cunnuugham) and Mr. C. Evans-Scott conducted the Crown case, Mr. H. F. O'Learjy, K.C., and Mr! T. P. McCarthy appeared for Marshall, Mr. A. H. Macandrew1 for Egley,' and Pobar conducted, 'his own defence.